Ba'al was a bad boy in the false-god department 3600 years ago, maybe longer. His wife Ashteroth was not much better. They were both fertility deities and their world consisted of temple prostitution and human sacrifice as well as orgies and other forms of sexual decadence. Ba'al was worshipped during the ancient Canaanite and Phoenician timeline. This important deity was considered the "giver of life" to mankind and mankind's flocks. The land of Canaan and its population were totally dedicated to Ba'al, who they considered the most important deity of the day with the exception of El, his father.
Canaan was the grandson of Noah and the land of Canaan was later given to the children of Israel by God, the real God. The Canaanites, in their zeal for Ba'al and the sex worship that came with it, may or may not be as evil as history has painted; but there is plenty of evidence. The Canaanites, in order to appease Ba'al, would kill their children and bury them in the foundations of their homes at the time of construction.
At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: "Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:
"At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates." Joshua 6:26 NIV. Starting in 1929, archaeological digs uncovered clay tablets in northern Syria and provided an education into the personality and purpose of Ba'al.
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