Quotes About Ba'al

A poet's work,' he answers. 'To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.' And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him. He is the satirist, Baal.

Judges of Israel, each of you kill those of your men who have yoked themselves to Ba'al of Peor." Women screamed and guilty men took off, trying to escape the swords that came after them. Men were hacked and hewn by the edge of sword and axe for their abominable practices in Israel's midst. Yahweh's zeal for holiness did not end with the Canaanite heathen. It applied as much to Israel as to anyone else. Yahweh would not compromise his glory.

It could not be more perfect. Ba'al, the very god of the Anakim, Israel's ultimate enemy, was already undermining Yahweh's inheritance through spiritual adultery, and they had not even yet faced off in confrontation. "Well then," said Sheshai with a pleased smirk, "We must certainly let the influence of Ba'al do his work on these people, And we will see which god ends up dispossessing which people after all.