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Bible Encyclopedias
Ba`al
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Lord), pl .
he principal male divinity of the Canaanites and Phoenicians, identified with the sun as the great quickening and life-sustaining power in nature, the god who presided over the labours of the husbandman and granted the increase; his crowning attribute, strength; worshipped on hill-tops with sacrifices, incense, and dancing. Baal-worship, being that of the Canaanites, was for a time mixed up with the worship of Jehovah in Israel, and at one time threatened to swamp it, but under the zealous preaching of the prophets it was eventually stamped out.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Ba`al'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/baal.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Ba`al'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/b/baal.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
