| Next morning a great multitude of the people gathered together and demanded that the man who had cast down the altar he put to death | |
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| This evil, at last, was put to an end by | The chief male god of the Phoenicians, in particular, was Baal and their chief goddess was Ashtoreth, his wife |
When the Israelites settled in Palestine and Jordan after they came out from Egypt, they started contracting marriage and other social relations with the polytheistic nations round about them, in violation of the strict prohibitive injunctions of the Torah, the disease of idol-worship began to spread among them, too.
28| Maksud ayat ini ialah mengapa kalian menyembahnya dan kalian tinggalkan artinya kalian tidak menyembah sebaik-baik pencipta yakni Allah; maksudnya mengapa kalian tidak menyembah Allah? | |
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| Italiano - Piccardo : Invocherete Baal e trascurerete il Migliore dei creatori• In any case, historically it is certain that Baal worship was prevalent from Babylon to Egypt throughout the Middle East, and the polytheistic communities of the Lebanon and Syria and Palestine, in particular, had become its devotees | And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods |
The scholars differ as to whether Baal meant the sun or Jupiter, and Ashtoreth the moon or Venus.
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