. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . 8. Baal-tamar, a place near Gibeah of 9. Baal-zephon, a point near towhich the Israelites crossed the Red Sea,of the location of which nothing more The Jewish Rabbis also assertthat there was an Egyptian god of this 1 Josh. xi.,17;xii.,7.— Sol. Song viii., 11 3 2 Sam. xni., 23—? Jndg. iii., 3; 1 Chron. v., 23.—6 Numb. xxxu., 38; 1 Chron. v., 8 « Numb, xxxii., 3; Josh. xiii., 17; Jer. xlviii., 23
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . 8. Baal-tamar, a place near Gibeah of 9. Baal-zephon, a point near towhich the Israelites crossed the Red Sea,of the location of which nothing more The Jewish Rabbis also assertthat there was an Egyptian god of this 1 Josh. xi.,17;xii.,7.— Sol. Song viii., 11 3 2 Sam. xni., 23—? Jndg. iii., 3; 1 Chron. v., 23.—6 Numb. xxxu., 38; 1 Chron. v., 8 « Numb, xxxii., 3; Josh. xiii., 17; Jer. xlviii., 23.— 2 Sam. v., 20; 1 , 11—B 2 Kings iv., 42.— Judg. xx., 33.—10 , 2, 9; Numb, xxxiii., T. name. The word also occurs alone as aname both of persons and a Baal, Bel, or Belus (lord or master), thename of a heathen deity very generally wor-shiped by the nations with whom the Israel-ites chiefly came in contact. Heathen wor-ship was essentially a deification of nature,and the worship of Baal and Ashtoreth (), or, in the plural, of Baalim and Ashta-roth, was an adoration of the productivepowers of nature. It has been attempted to. Ancient Medals with the Head of Baal. identify Baal with one or other of the godsof classic mythology, but there can be littledoubt that Baal is the sun, and Ashtoreth 1 Found in Judg. ix., 48; 1 Sam. xiii., 20, 21; , 5; Jer. xlvi., 22.—2 Deut. xix., 5; xx., 19; 1Kings vi.,7; 2 Kings vi.,5; Isa. x., 15, 34.—s , 12; Jer. x., 3—< Jer. li., 20 6 1 Chron. iv., 33; v., 5; viii., 30; ix., 30. BAALBEK 93 BAAL-PEOR
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