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Reference: Baalberith
Morish
Ba'al-be'rith
The god signifying 'covenant lord' set up at Shechem. Jg 8:33; 9:4. He is called BERITH in Jg 9:46.
Ba'al-be'rith
The god signifying 'covenant lord' set up at Shechem. Jg 8:33; 9:4. He is called BERITH in Jg 9:46.
Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.
They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, and they followed him.