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1081 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 128.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal; he had built up that of Jehovah, and offered on it accepted sacrifice. Shiloh was deserted, and the high priest seemed set aside. Ophrah had been made …
1082 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 129.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… “Covenant-Baal” (Baal-berith). There is a sad lesson here. If Gideon had made a spurious ephod, his people now chose a false “covenant-god.” And, having first forsaken …
1083 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 129.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal worship. Accordingly we find there the temple of the “Covenant-Baal” ( Judges 9:4 ). Possibly the latter may have been intended to express and perpetuate …
1084 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 130.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal around, from the want of any recognized outstanding individuality among them, and especially from their utter inability to make a stand even for …
1085 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 131.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… with Baal’s money. Out of the treasury of his temple they gave Abimelech seventy shekels. This wretched sum, somewhere at the rate of half-a-crown a person, sufficed …
1086 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 132.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal-berith. At the sacrificial feast which followed, wine soon loosened the tongues. It is an appeal to Baal as against the house of Jerubbaal; a revolt of …
1087 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 3, p. 154.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… with Baal-Peor. The same device is adopted which Balaam had suggested for the ruin of Israel—, and, alas! with the same success. The five princes of the Philistines …
1088 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 72.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , Esh-baal, is mentioned, who was evidently the same as Ishbosheth. Merab and Michal are introduced with a view to their after-story. Ewald says: “With ch. 14 Saul …
1089 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 104.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal. Already the country swarmed with its priests, when God raised up Elijah to be the breaker-up of the way, and Elisha to be the restorer of ancient paths …
1090 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 120.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ” (the Baale Keilah), ver. 12, who were ready to sell David for their own advantage.
1091 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 148.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , Esh-Baal, “fire of Baal” ( 1 Chronicles 8:33; 9:39 ), became in popular designation Ish-Bosheth, “man of shame,”—Baal and Bosheth being frequently interchanged according …
1092 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 154.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… down Baal,” which seems best to correspond with the parallel name Merib-Baal, in 1 Chronicles 8:34 .
1093 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 161.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… called “Baal-perazim” (“possessor of breaches”),—and from Isaiah 28:21, we know that the solemn import of the name never passed from memory. The victory and its meaning …
1094 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 163.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… .... from Baale”—probably a clerical error instead of “to Baale” (comp. 1 Chronicles 13:6 ). Baalah “of Jehudah,” to distinguish it from others of that name ( Joshua 19:8, 44 …
1095 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 4.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal became that of the State. This marks the high-point of apostasy in Israel. The evolving of principles of contrariety to the Divine Covenant slowly …
1096 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 113.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal became the established religion of the country. It follows, that there was not a single king in Israel—who really served the LORD or worshipped in His …
1097 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 122.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Baal, and Asherim, or trunks of trees dedicated to Astarte (with all the vileness which their service implied). The Bamoth would be on the heights, the Baal-and …
1098 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5
… of Baal and Astarte established in Israel—character of Ahab—religious reforms in Judah—Jehoshaphat joins affinity with Ahab—marriage of Jehoram with …
1099 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 162.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal the established religion of Israel, with all of vileness and of persecution which this implied. In these circumstances, surely, we may look for extraordinary …
1100 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 5, p. 163.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Ithobalus, “Baal is with him”).The classical student will be interested to know that Jezebel was the grand-aunt of Dido, the founder of Carthage. The notices in …