His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

The apostasy of the people was rampant, having turned away from God in order to serve the calves of Jeroboam II and Baal, a Canaanite god.

Bowie was given the lead role in the BBC's 1981 televised adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal.

Coinciding with its transmission, a five-track EP of songs from the play, recorded earlier in Berlin, was released as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal.

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

Solomon used it to lock certain demons within jars and command others to do his bidding although eventually, according to the Testament, he was tempted into worshipping " false-gods " like Moloch, Baal and Rapha.

Nevertheless, as recorded in the Tanakh (" Old Testament " Bible ), in defiance of the Torah's teachings, the patron god YHWH was frequently worshipped in conjunction with other gods such as Baal, Asherah, and El.

It was founded in 18th-century Eastern Europe by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov as a reaction against overly legalistic Judaism.

Grave of Elimelech of Lizhensk, whose influence in Poland was compared to the Baal Shem Tov's in Ukraine, due to many Hasidic dynasty | dynasties from his disciples.

In the 2nd millennium, polytheism was expressed through the concepts of the Divine Council and the divine family, a single entity with four levels: the chief god and his wife ( El and Asherah ); the seventy divine children or " stars of El " ( including Baal, Astarte, Anat, probably Resheph, as well as the sun-goddess Shapshu and the moon-god Yerak ); the head helper of the divine household, Kothar wa-Hasis ; and the servants of the divine household, including the messenger-gods who would later appear as the " angels " of the Hebrew Bible.

The prophet spoke boldly against the religious and moral corruption, when, in view of the idolatry which had penetrated even into the sanctuary, he threatened to " destroy out of this place the remnant of Baal, and the names of the ... priests " ( Zeph 1: 4 ), and pleaded for a return to the simplicity of their fathers instead of the luxurious foreign clothing which was worn especially in aristocratic circles ( 1: 8 ).

*< small > Rabbi Nachman was the grandson of the Baal Shem Tov and the founder of the Breslov School of Hassidism.

In Syria this deity was known as “ Baal ” (“ the Lord ” par excellence ), in Assyria as “ Ramanu ” (“ the Thunderer ”).

Lake Timsah was connected to Pithom in Gesem at various times by a canal, and a late 1st millennium text refers to Migdol Baal Zephon as fort on the canal.

As Didorus confuses Osiris with another figure in his stories of Nysas and Dionysius, and this figure may be Belus, or Baal, who was equated with Montu, another deity of Thebes, his confusion of Busiris, Osiris and Amun may be a clue to unraveling the confused Greek tradition around the name.

Though not a Jew himself, he was a supporter of Jehu, son of Nimshi, in the elimination of the house of Ahab and in suppressing worship of Baal throughout Samaria.

The historical enemy of Hayk ( the legendary ruler of Armenia ), Hayastan, was Bel, or in other words Baal ( Akkadian cognate Bēlu ).

" the help of Baal ") was the name of several Carthaginian generals of the First and Second Punic Wars.

Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( רבי ישראל בן אליעזר — May 22, 1760 ), often called Baal Shem Tov ( or ) or Besht, was a Jewish mystical rabbi.

The appellation “ Baal Shem ” was not unique to Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer ; however, it is Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer who is most closely identified as a “ Baal Shem ”, as he was the founder of the spiritual movement of Hasidic Judaism.

" Similarly, the Rebbe Mordechai of Neshkiz explains, " Even if a story about him never actually occurred, and there was no such miracle, it was in the power of the Baal Shem Tov, may his memory be a blessing for the life of the World-to-Come, to perform everything.

Forsaking the worship of God, they worshiped other gods, especially Baal, the Canaanite fertility god.

Omri, King of Israel, continued policies dating from the reign of Jeroboam, contrary to the laws of Moses, that were intended to reorient religious focus away from Jerusalem: encouraging the building of local temple altars for sacrifices, appointing priests from outside the family of the Levites, and allowing or encouraging temples dedicated to the Canaanite god, Baal.

Some scholars see a connection between Minos and the names of other ancient founder-kings, such as Menes of Egypt, Mannus of Germany, and Manu of India, and even with Meon of Phrygia and Lydia ( after him named Maeonia ), Mizraim of Egypt in the Book of Genesis and the Canaanite deity Baal Meon.

The deities they worshipped were Baal, Astarte, and Dagon, whose names or variations thereof appear in the Canaanite pantheon as well.

A few extant Egyptian and Canaanite writings allude to dying and rising gods such as Osiris and Baal.

Literary texts discovered at Ugarit include the Legend of Keret, the Aqhat Epic ( or Legend of Danel ), the Myth of Baal-Aliyan, and the Death of Baalthe latter two are also collectively known as the Baal cycleall revealing aspects of a Canaanite religion.

The name is drawn from the Canaanite deity Baal mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the primary god of the Phoenicians.

The Psalms describe God sitting enthroned over the Flood ( the cosmic sea ) in his heavenly palace ( Psalm 29: 10 ), the eternal king who " lays the beams of his upper chambers in the waters " ( Psalm 104: 3 )-an image which recalls the Mesopotamian god Ea who places his throne in Apsu, the primeval fresh waters beneath the earth, and the Canaanite god El, described in the Baal cycle as having his palace on a cosmic mountain which is the source of the primordial ocean / water springs.

* The ancient Roman ruins of Baalbek, an ancient city named for the Canaanite god Baal.

Like other people of the Ancient Near East Canaanite religious beliefs were polytheistic, with families typically focusing worship on ancestral household gods and goddesses, the Elohim, while acknowledging the existence of other deities such as Baal and El.

Canaanite divinities seem to have been almost identical in form and function to the neighboring Aramaeans to the east, and Baal Hadad and El can be distinguished amongst earlier Amorites, who at the end of the Early Bronze Age invaded Mesopotamia.

Carried west by Phoenician sailors, Canaanite religious influences can be seen in Greek mythology, particularly in the tripartite division between the Olympians Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, mirroring the division between Baal, Yam and Mot, and in the story of the Labours of Hercules, mirroring the stories of the Tyrian Melkart, who was often equated with Heracles.

The Canaanite scribes that produced the Baal texts were also trained to write in Babylonian cuniform, including Sumerian and Akkadian texts of every genre.

* Baal ( demon ), a Christian demon, loosely identified with the Canaanite god

* Baal Peor, a Canaanite deity

* Hadad, a Canaanite deity commonly known as Baal or Ba ' lu

The contest ends when Elijah's God consumes the offering which the Baal worshipers could not induce their god to touch, after which Elijah slaughters the Baal prophets ( 1 Kings 18: 17 – 40 ).

Some say that the Greeks took the constellation of Centaurus, and also its name " piercing bull ", from Mesopotamia, where it symbolized the god Baal who represents rain and fertility, fighting with and piercing with his horns the demon Mot who represents the summer drought.

Ahab allowed worship of a foreign god in the palace, building a temple for Baal, and allowing Jezebel to bring a large entourage of priests and prophets of Baal and Asherah into the country.

The major deities were not numerous – El, Asherah, and Yahweh, with Baal as a fourth god in the early period.

* Beelzebub, meaning " Lord of Flies ", is the contemptuous name given in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to a Philistine god whose original name has been reconstructed as most probably " Ba ' al Zabul ", meaning " Baal the Prince ".

This helps explain Yahweh's attributes as a storm god ( he comes to rescue Israel surrounded by darkness and thick clouds, and the earth trembles, the clouds drop water, and the mountains quake at his appearance ), and the way he appropriates attributes from the rival storm god Baal.

* In Palmyra, Syria, a Temple of the Sun is erected to the god Baal.

Probably it is the last remnant of the sense of Baal the god in the minds of the people of the region.

Josephus ( Antiquities 8. 13. 1 ) states clearly that Jezebel " built a temple to the god of the Tyrians, which they call Belus " which certainly refers to the Baal of Tyre, or Melqart.

If Peor's connection to Pi-Hor is factual, then the Baal of Peor may be the Egyptian god Horus.

On God's instruction, Gideon destroyed the town's altar to the foreign god Baal and the symbol of the goddess Asherah beside it.

The name Teucer is believed to be related to the name of the West Hittite God Tarku ( East Hittite Teshub ) -- the Indo-European Storm God -- a role which explains his relationship to Belus, who is the Semitic storm god Baal.

Male examples include the ancient Near Eastern and Greek deities Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Attis Tammuz, Asclepius, Orpheus, as well as Ra the Sun god with its fusion with Osiris / Orion, Jesus, Zalmoxis, Dionysus, and Odin.

) and as a sun god :... the Greeks were as firmly convinced as many modern Bible-readers that the Semites, or the Orientals generally, worshipped a god called Baal or Bel, the truth of course being that ba ' al is a Semitic word for lord or master, and so applies to a multitude of gods.