Then Elijah commanded them, "Seize the prophets of Baal. Don't let anyone get away!" They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
In The Baal Cycle, one god named Yam wants to become the most powerful of all the gods and rule over everything. Baal opposes this and kills Yam, then has a palace built for himself to live in. However, Baal is then killed by another god named Mot, who is in turn killed by a god named Anat.
Jehu's final work for the Lord was to destroy all the Baal worshipers. He went to Samaria and announced that he would serve Baal even more than Ahab did. He then called for all the prophets of Baal and all who served Baal to come to a great sacrifice to Baal.
In 1 Kings 18 we read about a dramatic event where the Lord, through Elijah, powerfully showed that He is a living God, as opposed to the powerless idol Baal that most of the people worshiped.
This outcome is taken as decisive by the Israelites, who slay the priests and prophets of Baal under Elijah's direction.
The Baal System was overcome by the powers of the Warp and Daemons battled the Tyranids. The Daemons were led by the vicious Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha, arch-foe of the Blood Angels and Sanguinius. Ka'Bandha declared that none would have the right to destroy the Blood Angels but him.
What made the very name Baal anathema to the Israelites was the program of Jezebel, in the 9th century bce, to introduce into Israel her Phoenician cult of Baal in opposition to the official worship of Yahweh (I Kings 18).
Baal is then struck down in an anticlimactic re-emergence of Yah- weh. The narrative thus ends with the ultimate defeat of Baal by Yahweh.
As mother goddess she was widely worshiped throughout Syria and Palestine, although she was frequently paired with Baal, who often took the place of El; as Baal's consort, Asherah was usually given the name Baalat.
At first the name Baal was used by the Jews for their God without discrimination, but as the struggle between the two religions developed, the name Baal was given up by the Israelites as a thing of shame, and even names like Jerubbaal were changed to Jerubbosheth: Hebrew bosheth means "shame".
Saul again disobeyed the Lord by not fulfilling His command to destroy the Amalekites and all of their animals, and the Lord rejected Saul as the king of Israel.
Ritualistic Baal worship, in sum, looked a little like this: Adults would gather around the altar of Baal. Infants would then be burned alive as a sacrificial offering to the deity.
Scripture. In this week's lesson we learn of Gideon being given three tasks by an angel of the Lord. He was to destroy his father's altar to Baal and tear down the Asherah poles beside it. He would take bulls of his father's herd to accomplish this task and build an altar to the God of Israel.
Baal is a Christian demon who was ranked as the first and principal king in Hell, ruling over the East. According to some authors Baal is a Duke of Hell, with 66 legions of demons under his command. The term "Baal" is used in various ways in the Old Testament, with the usual meaning of master, or owner.
Baal Hadad originated in Mesopotamia under the names Adad in the north and Iskur in the south. He is attested as early as the time of the Akkadian Empire (2334-2218 BCE) but became more popular after the fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur (2047-1750 BCE) during the First Babylonian Empire (c. 1894 to c. 1595 BCE).
As long as there is idolatry among Semitic peoples, they would refer to idols as Baal X where X specifies the idol (a location or a heavenly body or ...) Very likely the edict of Thessalonica in 380 AD was the very end of Baal as a religion.
Baal was the original Electro Archon and Raiden Shogun of Inazuma, also known as Raiden Makoto.
The Ugaritic Baal Cycle cites three of Baal's daughters: Pidray, Tallay, and Arsay. These three characters have not been fully studied, despite their status as the children of one of the major figures among the gods of Ugarit.
People were often worked up into great frenzies at the prospects of displeasing Baal. In times of great turbulence human sacrifices, particularly children, were made to this father of the gods!
Baal is immune to Electro damage, so if you've switched to the Electro Traveler, you won't be able to damage her with your skills at all.
As a god of the storm, Baal is depicted as both a divine warrior and the provider of natural fertility in the form of dew and rains. His presence in the heavens is manifested by dark clouds, roaring winds, peals of thunder, and bolts of lightning.
Dagan, also spelled Dagon, West Semitic god of crop fertility, worshiped extensively throughout the ancient Middle East. Dagan was the Hebrew and Ugaritic common noun for “grain,” and the god Dagan was the legendary inventor of the plow.
He is thought by many scholars to be a Canaanite version of the Babylonian god Marduk and identical with the Assyrian deity Hadad. In Canaanite lore, he was the ruler of Heaven as well as a god of the sun, rain, thunder, fertility, and agriculture.
Baal was worshipped in Canaan, the land that is now modern Israel or Palestine, before the entry of the Hebrew people into that territory after around 1250 B.C. In the Ugaritic language that was used in the fertile crescent, Baal was a storm god, the son of the dominant Ugaritic god named El.
Baal was known to be a rider of clouds, most active during storms but was also considered to be a "lord of heaven and earth", even controlling earth's fertility. He was the god of thunderstorms, the most vigorous and aggressive of the gods and the one on whom mortals most depended.