3 others in the registry answer to the name Baal. Every Baal in the Bible
supernatural · also Baal-peor · Peor
Baal
בַּעַלΒάαλ
Baal-berith or El-berith, meaning "Lord of the Covenant" or "God of the Covenant," was a Canaanite deity worshipped by the Israelites in Shechem during the time of the judges (Judges 8:33; 9:4, 46).
- verses
- 70
- first named
- Numbers 25:3
- last named
- Hosea 13:1
Description
Baal in the text
Baal-berith, also known as El-berith, was a Canaanite god whose name means "Lord of the Covenant" or "God of the Covenant." This deity is mentioned in the book of Judges in connection with the Israelites' idolatry and the rule of Abimelech, a son of Gideon.
After Gideon's death, the Israelites turned away from the Lord and began worshipping Baal-berith (Judges 8:33). Abimelech, seeking to establish his rule over Shechem, received silver from the temple of Baal-berith to hire worthless and reckless men to support him (Judges 9:4). Later, when the people of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech, they put their trust in the temple of El-berith (Judges 9:46).
The worship of Baal-berith/El-berith by the Israelites demonstrates their recurring tendency to stray from the Lord and embrace the idolatrous practices of the surrounding Canaanite culture. This unfaithfulness to the covenant with the Lord led to various conflicts and consequences throughout the period of the judges.
The name Baal-berith/El-berith suggests that this deity was associated with the concept of a covenant or agreement, possibly related to treaties or alliances between cities or nations. However, the biblical account emphasizes that the true covenant relationship is between the Lord and His people, and any devotion to other gods is a violation of this covenant.
Relations
Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Baal is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
70 verses across 12 of 66 books; 54 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (1), Judges (11), 1 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (11), 2 Kings (16), 2 Chronicles (6), Psalms (1), Jeremiah (12), Hosea (6), Zephaniah (1) and Romans (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 70, across 12 books. The name is written 83 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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