In the bible or in history, who is Baal? Detail please.?

Answer 1

Who Was Baal?

The Israelites came in contact with Baal when they arrived in Canaan, about the year 1473 B.C.E. They found that the Canaanites worshiped a multitude of gods who were not unlike the gods of Egypt, although they had different names and some different characteristics. The Bible, however, singles out Baal as the principal god of the Canaanites, and archaeological discoveries confirm his preeminence. (Judges 2:11) Although Baal was not the supreme god of their pantheon, he was the god who mattered most to the Canaanites. They believed that he had power over the rain, the wind, and the clouds and that he alone could deliver the people—as well as their animals and crops—from sterility or even death. Without Baal’s protection, Mot, a vindictive Canaanite god, would surely bring calamities down upon them.

Baal worship pulsed with sexual rites. Even the religious objects connected with Baal, like the sacred pillars and sacred poles, had sexual connotations. Apparently, the sacred pillars—rocks or hewn stones in the form of a phallic symbol—represented Baal, the male part of the sexual union. The sacred poles, on the other hand, were wooden objects or trees that represented Asherah, Baal’s consort and the female element.—1 Kings 18:19.

Temple prostitution and child sacrifice were other prominent aspects of Baal worship. (1 Kings 14:23, 24; 2 Chronicles 28:2, 3) The book The Bible and Archaeology says: “In the temples of the Canaanites there were male and female prostitutes (‘sacred’ men and women) and all sorts of sexual excesses were practiced. [Canaanites] believed that in some way these rites caused the crops and the herds to prosper.” That at least was the religious justification, although such immorality doubtless appealed to the fleshly desires of the worshipers.

Answer 2

The term hab·Ba′‛al (the Baal) is the designation applied to the false god Baal. The expression hab·Be‛a·lim′ (the Baals) refers to the various local deities thought of as owning or possessing and having influence over particular places.

The Bible book of Numbers Chapter 25 refers to the "Baal of Peor" for example.

Answer 3

Baal (baʕal; Hebrew: בעל) is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning "master" or "lord" that is used for various gods, spirits and demons particularly of the Levant, cognate to Assyrian bêlu.

"Baal" can refer to any god and even to human officials; in some texts it is used as a substitute for Hadad, a god of the rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture, and the lord of Heaven. Since only priests were allowed to utter his divine name Hadad, Baal was used commonly. Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of "Baal" refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called baal and regarded as an "idol". Therefore, in any text using the word baal it is important first to determine precisely which god, spirit or demon is meant.

Answer 4

There are several good answers already posted, so I will just add that in the Bible it refers to a Canaanite God, in which believers would sacrifice their children, hence the term to pass through the fire, and bury their ashes in the walls of buildings or around cities. Such remains were found in the discovered ruins of the walls of Jericho.

Answer 5

A statue that people would make sacrifices and treat like a god. Plus he had sacrifice towers and stuff. But really, it is a statue.

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Answer 6

It's more of a title than a god. It refers to a number of other gods that coexisted with Yahweh. They were the one's that he was "jealous" of and the ones that he referred to in the first commandment.

Answer 7

a pretend deiety that people used to throw thier babies into a fire pit to pray to him

Answer 8

Bal is an Egyptian God.

Answer 9

an idol