ELIJAH
King Jehu of Israel is credited with killing Jezebel and abolishing Baal worship in Israel. He carried out a purge of her followers and executed her by throwing her out of a window. This event is recorded in the Bible, specifically in the Book of Kings.
She introduced the worship of the Baal into the Ten Tribes of Israel. She orchestrated the murder of Naboth.
Prophet Elijah. After which he challanged the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel.
Baal was a god of the Philistines. It made the Israelites stray away from following the one and true God. It was an idol. Many times the kings tried to reform Israel and take Baal out of the picture, but the nation had a hard time with that. Other times, the kings were the ones who encouraged the nation to worship Baal.
Today? None. This form of idolatry is defunct, just like the gods of the Greeks, Romans and Druids, as predicted by Isaiah (2:18). In ancient times, baal-worship was found in the Levant.And among the Israelites?Throughout the period of the Judges and Kings, there were individuals who permitted themselves the aberration of dabbling in the idolatry of the neighboring countries, including the worship of the various baalim, with local their local variations (Baal, baal-peor, baal zebub, baal beq, baal berith, baal me'on, baal gad, baal hermon, baal peratzim, etc.).More specifically, it was Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, who introduced larger-scale baal-worship into the land of the Ten Tribes (Israel; as opposed to Judah). This deviation was soon stamped out by Elijah (1 Kings ch.18).
It was because of Israel's unfaithfulness and contamination with Baal worship, in violation of Jehovah's (God's name in Psalms 83:18) covenant. In the Promised Land, Israel had become an agricultural people, but in doing so they adopted not only the Canaanites' way of life but also their religion with its worship of Baal, a god symbolic of the reproductive forces of nature. In Hosea's day Israel had turned completely from the worship of Jehovah to a riotous, drunken ceremonial that included immoral relations with temple prostitutes. Israel attributed prosperity to Baal. She was disloyal to Jehovah, unworthy of him, and therefore had to be disciplined. Jehovah was going to show her that her material possessions were not from Baal, and so he sent Hosea to warn Israel what failure to repent would mean.
A:According to the Bible, yes - Ahab and his wife, Jezebel, introduced the worship of Baal to Israel. However, even the Bible itself provides evidence - inadvertently - that the worship of Baal did not just begin with Ahab.The Israelites and their neighbours often included the name of a favourite god in the names they gave their sons. Names ending in 'el' were common in Israel and to a lesser extent in Judah - this ending represented El (biblical 'Elohim), the father of the gods. Names ending in 'ah' represented Yahweh (biblical: YHWH). One of Saul's sons has a name compounded with Baal: Eshbaal ('man of Baal') and Jonathan's son was Meribbaal. These names are often overlooked because the Samuel texts substitute surrogate names compounded with the word 'shame' (Ishbosheth [2 Sam. 2.8]; Mephibosheth [2 Sam. 21.7] ), but they are correctly preserved in 1 Chronicles (8.33-34; 9.39-40). Replacing 'Baal' by 'shame' in their names demonstrates the mindset of a later century.Modern scholars say that the early Israelites had always worshipped Baal and other gods of their Canaanite ancestors, and only later did the people of Judah remove Baal from their pantheon.
King Ahab did more evil than all the kings of Israel who came before him. He married Jezebel, who introduced the worship of Baal and Asherah to Israel. Ahab also built an altar and temple for Baal in Samaria, and engaged in various idolatrous practices, leading the people of Israel astray from their worship of God.
King Ahab, of the northern kingdom Israel, married Jezebel and worshipped Baal (1 Kings 16:31). So the princess in question was Jezebel. However, it is unlikely that she actually introduced Baal, as the kingdom was already polytheistic and Baal was probably already one among its gods.
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H. Oort has written: 'The New Testament for learners' -- subject(s): Bible, History of Biblical events. 'The worship of Baalim in Israel' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Baal (Deity), Judaism, Religion, Baal (Canaanite deity)
A:No king of Israel ever eliminated Baal worship. The Bible itself tells us that the northern Hebrew kingdom, Israel, was polytheistic right up until its final destruction in 722 BCE. Whether the community at Elephantine in southern Egypt was of Israelite or Judahite origin, archaeology provides a glimpse of Israelite belief in the centuries immediately following the destruction of Israel and the subsequent fall of Judah. The local Elephantine temple was dedicated to YHWH, but they also worshipped a god Bethel and the Canaanite goddess Anat, whether or not there was also an ongoing worship of Baal. Mary Joan Winn Leith (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, lsrael among the Nations) says that the Yahwism of Elephantine may preserve ancient elements of Israelite Yahwism, frozen in time.