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1121 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 14.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Baal, or uttering incoherent broken sentences. All the while they beat themselves with heavy scourges, loaded or armed with sharp points, and cut themselves …
1122 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 16.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal-worship beyond recall. Not one of the priests of Baal must escape. Down the steep mountain sides they hurried them, cast them over precipices, those …
1123 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 18.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal, when compassion, gentleness, and meekness might have seemed befitting, since it was necessary effectually to expose the folly as well as the sin of …
1124 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 25.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Baal nor kissed in worship the abominable image. The term 7000 must not be pressed literally, as if it were the exact number of the faithful. Seven is the well …
1125 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 25.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Baal, as we infer even from the name which he had given to his son: Elisha, “the God of salvation,” or better, “my God salvation.” And now twelve yoke of oxen were ploughing …
1126 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 28.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Baal, must have been greatly quickened and encouraged by what had taken place on Carmel. Nay, it could not but have made lasting impression on King Ahab himself …
1127 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 33.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Baal, there is no need to regard it as referring to them, or (with the Rabbis) to “the true children of Israel—.” The precise number (232) of the body-guard points to …
1128 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 51.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal,” since the latter had been destroyed on Mount Carmel. Their bearing also widely differs from that of the prophets of Baal. Nor could they have been the …
1129 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 52.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal to that of Jehovah, it still left to Ahab, as king, the office and control of chief pontiff of the new religion (comp. 1 Kings 12:32, 33 ). Comp. Volume 5 of this …
1130 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 63.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Baal and Astarte (see Vol. 5.), was not only licked by dogs—which would remind of the prophecy of Elijah ( 1 Kings 21:19 ), and its threatened transference to his successor …
1131 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 65.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Baal and Astarte, were indeed destroyed ( 2 Chronicles 17:6 ), but it was found impossible to abolish the corrupt worship of Jehovah celebrated on “the high …
1132 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6
… of Baal-zebub—The Divine Message by Elijah—Attempts to Capture the Prophet, and their Result—Elijah Appears before the King—Death of Ahaziah—Accession of …
1133 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 78.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal-zebub in Ekron to know whether he would recover of his disease. Baal, “lord,” was the common name given by the Canaanites, the Phoenicians, the Syrians (Aramaeans …
1134 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 79.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
The Baal-zebub, worshipped in Ekron —the modern Akir —and the most north-eastern of the five cities of the Philistines, E.N.E. from Jerusalem, was the Fly God, who …
1135 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 79.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal and of Astarte as the religion of the State. True, this progress in apostasy was in reality only the logical sequence of the sin of Jeroboam, and hence …
1136 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 93.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… with Baal, whose worship, if it had been finally established, would, so to speak, have denationalized Israel, even as it ultimately led to that banishment which …
1137 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 94.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal which his father had made” ( 2 Kings 3:2 ). This does not mean that he either destroyed the Temple of Baal, or even that pillar—perhaps we should rather call …
1138 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 100.10 (Alfred Edersheim)
9. on it in my days, and I built Baal Meon, and made therein the tank, and I [built]
1139 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 105.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Baal. How truly Elisha had judged Joram appears from his answer, when with almost incredible dullness, he once more urged—presumably as the reason for his …
1140 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6
… from Baal-Shalisha—God’s Sufficient and Unfailing Provision for His Own