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The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Ba士al (饜巵饜帗饜帊 lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility . The Baal Cycle consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.1–1.6.
The false prophet of the Book of Revelation (16:13, 19:20, 20:10) The false prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:13–40) Noadiah (Nehemiah 6:14) Shemaiah the Nehelamite (Jeremiah 29:24) Simon Magus (Acts 8:9–24) Zedekiah, son of Maaseiah (Jeremiah 29:21) Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah (1 Kings 22:24)
Worship of Baals and Ashtoreths has been schematically interspersed between these chapters, but no trace of a vital, popular belief in any foreign gods can be detected in the stories themselves. Baal prophets appeared in Israel centuries later; but during the age of the judges when Israel is supposed to have been most deeply affected by the ...
See also References A Abagtha See also: Abagtha Abagtha (Hebrew 讗植讘址讙职转指讗) was a court official or eunuch of king Ahasuerus who was commanded along with 6 other officials to parade queen Vashti to go before the king. (Esther 1:10) Abda See also: Abda (biblical figure) The name Abda (Hebrew 注址讘职讚指旨讗) means servant, or perhaps is an abbreviated form of servant of YHWH. There are ...
Elijah proposes a direct test of the powers of Baal and Yahweh (both Asherah and her prophets disappear from the story entirely): he and Baal's prophets will each take one of two bulls, prepare it for sacrifice and lay it on wood, but put no fire to it. The prophets of Baal choose and prepare a bull accordingly.
Baal-berith – lord of the covenant Baale – same as Baalath Baal-gad – lord Gad, or lord of Gad, or lord of fortune/felicity Baal-hamon – he who rules a crowd Baal-hanan – Ba'al is gracious Baal-hermon – lord of destruction / of a cursed-thing Baali – my lord; lord over me Baalim – lords; masters; (later Jewish use: false gods)
The Baal Cycle, the most famous of the Ugaritic texts, [1] displayed in the Louvre. The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language. Approximately 1,500 texts and fragments have been found to date.
Balaam and the angel, painting from Gustav Jaeger, 1836. Balaam (/ 藞 b e瑟 l æ m /; [1] Hebrew: 讘执旨诇职注指诐, romanized: B墨l士膩m), son of Beor, [2] was a biblical figure, a non-Israelite prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor, a place identified with the ancient city of Pitru, thought to have been located between the region of Iraq and northern Syria in what is now southeastern Turkey.