Topic
Baal-berith
4 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Judges 8:33Easton · ISBE · Nave Worshiped by Israelites
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
- Judges 9:4Easton · ISBE · Nave A god of the Shechemites
And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.
- Exodus 34:12Easton
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
- Judges 9:46Nave Called BERITH
¶ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
Covenant lord, the name of the god worshipped in Shechem after the death of Gideon (Judg. 8:33; 9:4). In 9:46 he is called simply “the god Berith.” The name denotes the god of the covenant into which the Israelites entered with the Canaanites, contrary to the command of Jehovah (Ex. 34:12), when they began to fall away to the worship of idols.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.