Bible Topics for Kids
BAAL, 1. An idol of the Phoenicians, god of the sun
1 Kings 16:31-33
31. As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of EthBAAL king of the Sidonians, and went and served BAAL, and worshiped him.
32. He raised up an altar for BAAL in the house of BAAL, which he had built in Samaria.
33. Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke The LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kings 18:18
He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken The LORD's commandments, and you have followed the BAALs.
1 Kings 19:18
Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to BAAL, and every mouth which has not kissed him."