Who Is Baal In The Bible? (Scripture Secrets Revealed)

Who is Baal In The Bible?

Baal is the false, pagan god that the Israelites sinfully worshipped from time to time in the Scriptures.

Quick Facts on Baal from The Bible

1. Baal is known as lord of the opening and as the false god of the Moabites (Numbers 25:3; 31:16; Joshua 22:17)
2. He is closely tied to the false, and pagan idol/goddess Ashtoreth in the Scriptures
3. Baal is translated as ruler, lord, master or owner.
4. Baal is also the Canaanite-Phoenician god or idol of fertility and weather, and in particular of rainstorms.
5. Jezebel, the wife of King Ahab, worshipped Baal and Ashtoreth and led her husband into this idolatry against God.

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Scripture on Ahab, Jezebel and Baal in 1 King 16:30-33

• 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.
• 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
• 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
• 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

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