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How is this phrase used outside of Jehovah Witneses
Jehovah or Baal? A sermon [on 1 Kings xviii. 21] preached before the University of Oxford, etc (1865)
Frederick Meyrick
https://books.google.com/books?id=5JQL2JduPTUC&pg=PA9
Jehovah or Baal ?
Sermon p. 8-23
Christian Worship: Its Theology and Practice (2006)
Franklin M. Segler, Randall Bradley
http://books.google.com/books?id=fSRHbo_RfLoC&pg=PA14
The Period of the Judges
As Israel proceeded with the conquest of Canaan, they encountered the
worship of nature deities known as the “Baalim.” In this environment God’s
people were influenced by the tribes who worshipped false gods, and Jehovah
worship was corrupted. Some of the people forsook the God of their forbearers.
Many of them transferred the rituals and ceremonies of the popular shrines,
where false gods were worshipped, to the worship of Jehovah. Doubtless
Hannahs prayers were genuine (1 Sam. 1), but the corrupt acts of priests
(1 Sam. 2:12-17, 22-25) and the fetish value placed upon the ark (1 Sam.
4:3) indicate false acts of worship.
Some of the people remembered Jehovah, and Jehovah worship continued
at numerous shrines during the period of the judges. Gilgal was likely the
first place established for the worship of Jehovah in the new land of Canaan.
Saul was crowned in the Gilgal sanctuary, and annual celebrations of Israels
crossing into Canaan may have taken place there. Altars at Gilgal (Judg. 2:1),
Ophrah (Judg. 6:24), Shiloh and Dan (Judg. 18:29-31), Hebron (2 Sam. 5:3),
and Gideon (1 Kings 3:4) indicate that Israels conquest of the land for Jehovah
was constantly going forward.
Jehovah or Baal? A sermon [on 1 Kings xviii. 21] preached before the University of Oxford, etc (1865)
Frederick Meyrick
https://books.google.com/books?id=5JQL2JduPTUC&pg=PA9
Jehovah or Baal ?
Sermon p. 8-23
Christian Worship: Its Theology and Practice (2006)
Franklin M. Segler, Randall Bradley
http://books.google.com/books?id=fSRHbo_RfLoC&pg=PA14
The Period of the Judges
As Israel proceeded with the conquest of Canaan, they encountered the
worship of nature deities known as the “Baalim.” In this environment God’s
people were influenced by the tribes who worshipped false gods, and Jehovah
worship was corrupted. Some of the people forsook the God of their forbearers.
Many of them transferred the rituals and ceremonies of the popular shrines,
where false gods were worshipped, to the worship of Jehovah. Doubtless
Hannahs prayers were genuine (1 Sam. 1), but the corrupt acts of priests
(1 Sam. 2:12-17, 22-25) and the fetish value placed upon the ark (1 Sam.
4:3) indicate false acts of worship.
Some of the people remembered Jehovah, and Jehovah worship continued
at numerous shrines during the period of the judges. Gilgal was likely the
first place established for the worship of Jehovah in the new land of Canaan.
Saul was crowned in the Gilgal sanctuary, and annual celebrations of Israels
crossing into Canaan may have taken place there. Altars at Gilgal (Judg. 2:1),
Ophrah (Judg. 6:24), Shiloh and Dan (Judg. 18:29-31), Hebron (2 Sam. 5:3),
and Gideon (1 Kings 3:4) indicate that Israels conquest of the land for Jehovah
was constantly going forward.
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