Expert: Dean Gade - 12/20/2006

Question
Thank you for your answer, but can you give me any of the specific practices of Baal worship or where I might get more information.
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Can you explain some of the aspects of baal worship, specifically what is meant in Jeremiah 10:3

"3  For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4  They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not"

Thank you for your time,
Dawn
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God is saying through Jeremiah that it is very foolish to make an idol, made from a piece of wood from a tree, then made ornate with all kinds of glitter and nailed down so it doesn't topple.   It is still just a dead piece of wood and can do nothing for those who worship it.

It can't do us any harm.   It can't do the heathen any good.

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Sorry, I somehow missed that part of the question.

One old realiable source for the study of Baal worship is "Halley's Bible Handbook".   Which you might find in a used book store as well as a Bible bookstore.

Another usually good source is "The Encyclopia of Religious Knowledge"  which is copied on the WWW.   You can get there through  http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc13/htm/TOC.htm
and then choose "b" for baal.