Baal, Baalah, Baalath
Baal, Baalah, Baalath
BAAL, BAALAH, BAALATH.1. = Kiriath-jearim (1Ch 13:6, Jos 15:9-10). 2. Baalath-beer (Jos 19:8, 1Ch 4:33 [Baal]), a site in the Negeb. 3. A city in the S. of Judah (Jos 15:29; Jos 19:3, 1Ch 4:29). 4. Mount Baalab, between Ekron and Jabneel (Jos 15:11), possibly, as M. Clermont-Gannean has suggested, the river (not mountain) of Baal (now Nahr Rubin). 5. An unknown town of Dan (Jos 19:44). 6. An unknown town (1Ki 9:18 = 2Ch 8:6).
E. W. G. Masterman.