Baal (A male deity in the Old Testament) - Fact Book

First, in plain English

The Canaanite storm god, the power people believed sent the rain and made the crops grow. Worshipping him was the temptation Israel never shook, and the Old Testament fights it from the judges onward.

Who this is

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.

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The word

H1168 · G896

Where it appears

Judges 2:11
Judges 2:13
Judges 3:7
Judges 6:25
Judges 6:28
Judges 6:30
Judges 6:31
Judges 6:32
Judges 8:33
Judges 10:6
Judges 10:10
1 Samuel 7:4
1 Samuel 12:10
1 Kings 16:31
1 Kings 16:32
1 Kings 18:18
1 Kings 18:19
1 Kings 18:21
1 Kings 18:22
1 Kings 18:25
1 Kings 18:26
1 Kings 18:40
1 Kings 19:18
1 Kings 22:53
2 Kings 3:2
2 Kings 10:18
2 Kings 10:19
2 Kings 10:20
2 Kings 10:21
2 Kings 10:22
2 Kings 10:23
2 Kings 10:25
2 Kings 10:26
2 Kings 10:27
2 Kings 10:28
2 Kings 11:18
2 Kings 17:16
2 Kings 21:3
2 Kings 23:4
2 Kings 23:5
1 Chronicles 4:33
2 Chronicles 17:3
2 Chronicles 23:17
2 Chronicles 24:7
2 Chronicles 28:2
2 Chronicles 33:3
2 Chronicles 34:4
Jeremiah 2:8
Jeremiah 2:23
Jeremiah 7:9
Jeremiah 9:14
Jeremiah 11:13
Jeremiah 11:17
Jeremiah 12:16
Jeremiah 19:5
Jeremiah 23:13
Jeremiah 23:27
Jeremiah 32:29
Jeremiah 32:35
Hosea 2:8
Hosea 2:13
Hosea 2:16
Hosea 2:17
Hosea 11:2
Hosea 13:1
Zephaniah 1:4
Romans 11:4