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Updated: May 17, 2025
The fate of Babylon is pointed at by the Prophet, to show what Tyre had to expect from Assyria. "Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars." "Tarshish was thy merchant." RELIGION AND LETTERS. A very prominent feature of the religion of the Phaenicians is the local character of their divinities. But such names as Baal-sidon, "Lord of Sidon," Baal-libanon, "God of Lebanon," etc., are common.
"The welfare of my spirit, Prince? No, it cannot, since I do not believe that I have a spirit. When I die, I die, and there is an end. But the blessing of Heaven, ah! that can be bought, as I have proved once and again, if not with gold, then otherwise. Did I not in bygone years pass the first son of my manhood through the fire to Baal-Sidon?
As polytheistic systems had always a tendency to enlarge themselves, Baal had no sooner become a separate god, distinct from El, and Rimmon, and Molech, and Adonai, than he proceeded to multiply himself, and from Baal became Baalim, either because the local Baals Baal-Tzur, Baal-Sidon, Baal-Tars, Baal-Libnan, Baal-Hermon were conceived of as separate deities, or because the aspects of Baal Baal as Sun-God, Baal as Lord of Heaven, Baal as lord of flies, , &c. were so viewed, and grew to be distinct objects of worship.
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