he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. (2 Kings 10:19)).Incense(Jer. 7:99Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;...
The general analogy shows itself further in the idea of the deity as the husband (ba'al) of his worshippers or of the land in which they dwell. The Astarte of Gabal (Byblus) was regularly known as the ba'alath (fem. of baal), her real name not being pronounced (perhaps out of re...
Cicero, in Verrem, 4, 43), and that his worshippers used to swear by his name (Jer 12:16). SEE CHEMARIM. Throughout all the Phoenician colonies we continually find traces of the worship of this god, partly in the names of men, such as Adher-bal, Asdru- bal, Hanni-bal, and ...
375), yet there seems no reason to doubt that this was the name given to the god by his worshippers, and the plague of flies in hot climates furnishes a sufficient reason for the designation. See FLY. Similarly the Greeks gave the epithet ἀπόμυιος, to Zeus (Clem. Alex....
, of the reeling, swaying, bacchantie dance of the priests, which was probably not unlike that of the dancing dervishes or the Indian devil worshippers of our own time] upon [or near, i.e., around] the altar which was made, [Heb. he, that is, one made, עָשָׂה ...
If this be correct, it will give a special significance to the last clause in the verse, which may however merely mean that the idols, being abominable to the true God, make their worshippers abominable, just as Shame may refer, not to the shameful rites of this Baal, but to God’s ...