Baal (Man living at the time of United Monarchy)

Baal was the chief storm and fertility god of the Canaanite pantheon, worshiped as the power behind rain, crops, and fertility, and the Old Testament treats Baal worship as Israel's most persistent and dangerous temptation, from the judges period through the divided monarchy. Elijah's contest on Mount Carmel, where fire from heaven answered his prayer while Baal's prophets got no response from their own god, is the Bible's most direct confrontation between the two.