This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...Samuel and of Saul. More than that: a great number of Israelites at the time of the Judges and of David bore names into which entered the component Baal, f such as Jarebaal, Meribaul, Ishbaal, Baaliada. J This name of Baal, the equivalent of Adonai, but in great favour among the Phoenicians, was not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...Samuel and of Saul. More than that: a great number of Israelites at the time of the Judges and of David bore names into which entered the component Baal, f such as Jarebaal, Meribaul, Ishbaal, Baaliada. J This name of Baal, the equivalent of Adonai, but in great favour among the Phoenicians, was not considered improper or idolatrous until the days of the prophets of the school of Elijah. Up to that time a broad ch. xvii., v. 15, 16), seems to have been borrowed lrom the Wars of Iahveh, which, written in the ninth or tenth century, may have exaggerated the Jehovist character of those accounts. Apparent exception: Jokebed, mother of Moses (name no doubt fabricated afterwards; the name of Iahveh is not found in the name of any woman of really ancient times; Athalia is a feminine adjective). It is not at all sure that the name of Joshua includes the name of Iahveh, and then the personage is quite legendary. Joel and Abiah, names of the sons of Samuel, are doubtful. As regards Joas and Jotham, father and son of Gideon, see below (p. 2G0). With regard to Micah or Michaihon, see below (p. 285). t Afterwards boset (shame) was substituted for baal, or else El was put in the place of Baal. A great number of pagan names have been thus obliterated. I Other examples: Gesenius, Thes., pp., 229, 280. eclecticism had been the religious rule of Israel. It is remarkable that the names formed of the components Milik or Baal are to be found particularly in the families of Gideon, of Saul, and of David, or among their followers. Gesenius, already quoted. CHAPTER XV. JOURNEYING TOWARDS CANAAN. It is strange that once among the mountains of Sinai, in the direction of the Serbal of to-day, the children of Israel did not push on a little to the south-west. There..
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