They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives.” But Jehu was tricking them so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

Nebo, Baal Meon (with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed the cities they built.

That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”

He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, angering the Lord God of Israel just as his father had done.

When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died.

So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, “The Lord has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said, “Using me as his instrument, God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So that place is called Baal Perazim.

When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the Lord flared up against Israel.

He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.

the territory of Byblos and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.

God helped him in his campaigns against the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor.”

Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab worshiped Baal a little; Jehu will worship him with great devotion.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,

Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

They traveled from Etham, and turned again to Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-Zephon; and they camped before Migdal.

Then Jerub-Baal son of Joash went home and settled down.