Beelzebul

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So it ought to be read in Mat_12:24; Mar_3:22; Luk_11:15, etc. The Jews, in ridicule, changed Baalzebub, the Ekronite "god of flies", into Beelzebul, "god of dung" (which however is zebel, as they changed Beth-el ("house of God") into Beth-aven ("house of vanity"), when the golden calf was set up there. Zebul means "dwelling," lord of this lower world, "prince of the power of the air" (Eph_2:2), and taking up his "dwelling" in human bodies (Mat_12:45).
Thus "master of the house" and "master of the dwelling" (Beelzebul) stand in happy contrast (Mat_10:25). As the Ekronite god was applied to by Ahaziah to east, out his disease, so the Jews taunted Jesus as using the same idol power to east out demons. Idols and demons, moreover, had a close connection (1Co_10:20-21). Beelzebul was thought to be the foul prince of both.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Be-el'zebul. (lord of the house). The title of a heathen deity, to whom the Jews ascribed, the sovereignty of the evil spirits; Satan, the prince of the devils. Mat_10:25; Mat_12:24; Mar_3:22; Luk_11:15 ff. The correct reading is without doubt, Beelzebul, and not Beelzebub.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


Jews of New Testament times used ‘Beelzebul’ as a name for Satan, the prince of demons (Mat_10:25; Mat_12:24-27). It was a variation of the name Baal-zebub, a Baal god whose home (according to an ancient Canaanite belief) was in the Philistine town of Ekron (2Ki_1:2). The name meant ‘lord of flies’, probably because the local people believed this god gave the citizens of Ekron protection against disease-carrying flies that plagued the area.
By contrast other people interpreted the name in a bad sense – lord of flies, and therefore lord of filth. This was the meaning the Jews had in mind when they used the name as a title for Satan. Satan was Beelzebul, for he was lord of all things unclean, in particular unclean spirits, or demons (Mar_3:21-22; Luk_11:14-15). (Concerning the Jews’ accusation that Jesus cast out demons by Beelzebul, see BLASPHEMY.)
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.


Beel?zebul, the name assigned (Mat_12:24) to the prince of the demons. There is no doubt that the reading Beelzebul is the one which has the support of almost every critical authority; and the Beelzebub of the Peshito (if indeed it ?is not a corruption, as Michaelis thinks), and of the Vulgate, and of some modern versions, has probably been accommodated to the name of the Philistine god Baalzebub. Some of those who consider the latter to have been a reverential title for that god, believe that Beelzebul is a willful corruption of it, in order to make it contemptible. [BAAL].
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.





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