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...Gideon was otherwise known as Jerubbaal because he cast down the altar of Baal by night...
...clock this evening in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read the story of Elijah and the Prophets of Baal, portions of the sixth and seventh chapters of the Book of Revelation, the "sentences" of the Young Men before Darius, and a few other selections from the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Apocrypha. The reading--which will be the last until February--will be open to members of the University only...
...married Athaliah, daughter to Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands of the Arabians and the Philistines, himself died wretchedly from a lingering sickness which consumed...
Mathan, an apostate priest, sacrificer to Baal, Charles Wright...
When the children of Israel were asked whether they would serve God or Baal he let them choose of their own accord and when they choose idolatry he punished them by thrusting their forty year's wandering upon them. And so with us; if we are given our choice between good and evil and accept the evil, we cannot expect other than our deserved punishment...