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Baal (3)
geographical. This word occurs as the prefix or suffix to the names of several places in Israel, some of which are as follows:
1. BAAL a town of Simeon, named only in 1Ch 4:33 which from the parallel list in Jos 19:8 seems to have been identical with BAALATH-BEER.
2. BAALAH (mistress).
a. Another name for KIRJATH-JEARIM, or KIRJATH BAAL, the well-known town now Kuriet el Enab.
Jos 15:9,10; 1Ch 13:6 b. A town in the south of Judah, Jos 15:29 which in Josh 19:3
is called BALAH, and in the parallel list,
1Ch 4:29 BILHAH.
3. BAALATH (mistress), a town of Dan named with Gibbethon, Gath-rim-mon and other Philistine places.
Jos 19:44
4. BAALATH-BEER (lord of the well). BAAL 1, a town among those in the south part of Judah, given to Simeon, which also bore the name of RAMATH-NEGEB, or "the height of the south." Jos 19:8
5. BAAL-GAD (lord of fortune), used to denote the most northern, Jos 11:17; 12:7 or perhaps northwestern, Jos 13:5 point to which Joshua's victories extended. It was in all probability a Phoenician or Canaanite sanctuary of Baal under the aspect of Gad or Fortune.
6. BAAL-HAMON (lord of a multitude), a place at which Solomon had a vineyard, evidently of great extent. So 8:11
7. BAAL-HAZOR (village of Baal), a place where Absalom appears to have had a sheep-farm, and where Amnon was murdered. 2Sa 13:23
8. MOUNT BAAL-HERMON (Lord of Hermon),
Jud 3:3 and simply Baal-hermon. 1Ch 5:23 This is usually considered as a distinct place from Mount Hermon; but we know that this mountain had at least three names De 3:9 and Baal-hermon may have been a fourth in use among the Phoenician worshippers.
9. BAAL-MEON (lord of the house), one of the towns which were built by the Reubenites. Nu 32:38 It also occurs in 1Ch 5:8 and on each occasion with Nebo. In the time of Ezekiel it was Moabite, one of the cities which were the "glory of the country." Eze 25:9
10. BAAL-PERAZIM (lord of divisions), the scene of a victory of David over the Philistines, and of a great destruction of their images. 2Sa 5:20; 1Ch 14:11 See Isa 28:21 where it is called MOUNT PERAZIM.
11. BAAL-SHALISHA (lord of Shalisha), a place named only in 2Ki 4:42 apparently not far from Gilgal; comp. 2Ki 4:38
12. BAAL-TAMAR (lord of the palm tree), a place named only in Jud 20:33 as near Gibeah of Benjamin. The palm tree (tamar) of Deborah, Jud 4:5 was situated somewhere in the locality, and is possibly alluded to.
13. BAAL-ZEPHON (lord of the north), a place in Egypt near where the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. Nu 33:7; Eze 14:2,9 We place Baal-zephon on the western shore of the Gulf of Suez, a little below its head, which at that time was about 30 or 40 miles northward of the Present head.
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