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Berith
(Judges 9:46) [BAAL-BERITH]
In the Bible
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Verses where Berith is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Judges 8:33
And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
- Judges 9:4
So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
- Judges 9:46
On hearing of this, all the leaders in the tower of Shechem entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.
Entries that reference Berith
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Berith references
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Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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