In understanding Baal-zebub in 2 Kgs 1:2, we begin with Ahaziah falling through a lattice and inquiring of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron. It should be no surprise as a worshipper of Baal, determined to walk in the evil ways of his father and of his mother (1 Kings 22:52), Ahaziah would obviously make inquiries of all forms of the Baal divinity. Why he would chose "Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is said that possibly that Baal the oldest ancient sites of the Baal-worshiping temple. Baal-zebub is "the lord of flies " - either the god who sends them as a plague on any nation that offends him ( Exodus 8:21-31), or the god who averts them from his votaries and favorites, an equivalent of the Greek Ζεὺς ἀπόμυιος, o l-zebub had at that time a distinctive status for giving replies.
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The Septuagint translation, Βάαλ μυι'αν, though inaccurate, shows an appreciation of the true etymology. Ekron was one of the principalities of the Philistines, and this idol was the god they worshipped, which signifies a master fly. The Heathens had deities they called Myiodes, Myagros, and which signifies a driver away of flies; as Jupiter and Hercules were called by the Eleans and Romans, and worshipped and sacrificed to buy them on that account; and so the Cyreneans, a people of Lybia, worshipped the god Achor, which seems to be a corruption of the word Ekron, because he freed them from flies, after they had been infested with a pestilence through them; and Ekron being a place near the sea, and both hot and moist, might be much infested with those creatures. Within the haven of Ptolemais, or Acco, was formerly a temple of Baal-zebub, called in later times was called the tower of flies, and used as a Pharus. Inverse 12 It starts by saying If I am a man of God let fire comes from heaven. It represents
The Septuagint translation, Βάαλ μυι'αν, though inaccurate, shows an appreciation of the true etymology. Ekron was one of the principalities of the Philistines, and this idol was the god they worshipped, which signifies a master fly. The Heathens had deities they called Myiodes, Myagros, and which signifies a driver away of flies; as Jupiter and Hercules were called by the Eleans and Romans, and worshipped and sacrificed to buy them on that account; and so the Cyreneans, a people of Lybia, worshipped the god Achor, which seems to be a corruption of the word Ekron, because he freed them from flies, after they had been infested with a pestilence through them; and Ekron being a place near the sea, and both hot and moist, might be much infested with those creatures. Within the haven of Ptolemais, or Acco, was formerly a temple of Baal-zebub, called in later times was called the tower of flies, and used as a Pharus. Inverse 12 It starts by saying If I am a man of God let fire comes from heaven. It represents