BAAL

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• Joshua 19:8

  and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

• Judges 2:10

  After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

• Judges 2:11

  The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.

• Judges 2:12

  They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.

• Judges 2:13

  They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

• Judges 2:14

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

• Judges 2:15

  Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.

• Judges 2:16

  Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

• Judges 2:17

  Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

• Judges 2:18

  When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

• Judges 2:19

  But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.

• Judges 2:20

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,

• Judges 2:21

  I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;

• Judges 2:22

  that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep the Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

• Judges 2:23

  So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.

• Judges 6:25

  That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.

• Judges 6:26

  Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

• Judges 6:27

  Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.

• Judges 6:28

  When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.

• Judges 6:29

  They said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”

• Judges 6:30

  Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”

• Judges 6:31

  Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar!”

• Judges 6:32

  Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”

• 1 Samuel 7:3

  Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

• 1 Samuel 7:4

  Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.

• 1 Kings 16:31

  As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

• 1 Kings 16:32

  He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

• 1 Kings 16:33

  Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

• 1 Kings 18:18

  He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

• 1 Kings 18:40

  Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don’t let one of them escape!” They seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

• 1 Kings 19:18

  Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

• 2 Kings 3:2

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

• 2 Kings 10:18

  Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

• 2 Kings 10:19

  Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshipers, and all of his priests. Let no one be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live.” But Jehu did deceptively, intending to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

• 2 Kings 10:20

  Jehu said, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!” So they proclaimed it.

• 2 Kings 10:21

  Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.

• 2 Kings 10:22

  He said to him who kept the wardrobe, “Bring out robes for all the worshipers of Baal!” So he brought robes out to them.

• 2 Kings 10:23

  Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”

• 2 Kings 10:24

  So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.”

• 2 Kings 10:25

  As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them! Let no one escape.” So they struck them with the edge of the sword. The guard and the captains threw the bodies out, and went to the inner shrine of the house of Baal.

• 2 Kings 11:18

  All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 17:16

  They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

• 2 Kings 21:3

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• 2 Kings 23:4

  The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

• 2 Kings 23:5

  He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

• 1 Chronicles 4:33

  and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.

• 1 Chronicles 5:5

  Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

• 1 Chronicles 8:30

  with his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,

• 1 Chronicles 9:36

  his firstborn son Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

• 2 Chronicles 22:2

  Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

• 2 Chronicles 22:3

  He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

• 2 Chronicles 22:4

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

• 2 Chronicles 24:7

  For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up God’s house; and they also gave all the dedicated things of Yahweh’s house to the Baals.

• 2 Chronicles 28:2

  but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.

• 2 Chronicles 33:3

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• Jeremiah 2:8

  The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and followed things that do not profit.

• Jeremiah 2:23

  “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

• Jeremiah 7:9

  Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 13:1

  Yahweh says to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”

• Jeremiah 23:13

  “I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.