You made Belial for the pit, angel of enmity in darkness is his domain, his counsel is to bring about wickedness and guilt.

In The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, one of the Dead Sea scrolls, Belial is the leader of the Sons of Darkness: Also a large number of references to Belial are evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Qumran from 1948. The term belial appears frequently in Jewish texts of the Second Temple period (texts classified by Christians as the Old Testament pseudepigrapha and apocrypha).

In his entirety he will certainly be cut off.' Second Temple period Indicating that the enemy power would no longer interfere with the carrying out of true worship by his people in their land, YHWH declared through his prophet: 'No more will any worthless person pass again through you. 'Belial' is applied to ideas, words, and counsel, to calamitous circumstances, and most frequently, to worthless men of the lowest sort, such as men who would induce worship of other gods those of Benjamin who committed the sex crime at Gibeah the wicked sons of Eli insolent Nabal opposers of God's anointed, David Rehoboam's unsteady associates Jezebel's conspirators against Naboth and men in general who stir up contention. 'the wicked men of the city' (Judges 19:22, NIV).'the sons of Eli were worthless men' (1 Samuel 2:12, NRSV and NIV).In modern versions these are usually read as a phrase: 'the sons of Eli were sons of Belial' (KJV).The Geneva Bible (1560) uses 'wicked', and at the Book of Judges 19:22 has the marginal note ' Ebr men of Belial: that is, given to all wickednes.' In the KJV these occurrences are rendered with 'Belial' capitalised: Of these 27 occurrences, the idiom 'sons of Belial' (Ч‘Ц°ЦјЧ ЦµЦЅЧ™ЦѕЧ‘Ц°ЧњЦґЧ™Ц·ЦјЧўЦ·Чњ beni beliyaal) appears 15 times to indicate worthless people, including idolaters (Deuteronomy 13:13), the men of Gibeah (Judges 19:22, 20:13), the sons of Eli (1 Samuel 2:12), Nabal, and Shimei. Phrases beginning with 'sons of' are a common Semitic idiom, such as 'sons of destruction' or 'sons of lawlessness'. In the Hebrew text, the phrase is either 'sons of Belial' or simply 'sons of worthlessness'. The word occurs twenty-seven times in the Masoretic Text, in verses such as the Book of Proverbs ( Proverbs 6:12), where the King James Version (KJV) translates the Hebrew phrase adam beli-yaal as 'a naughty person'. Only a few etymologists have believed it to be an invented name from the start. Some scholars translate it from Hebrew as 'worthless' ( Beli yo'il), while others translate it as 'yokeless' ( Beli ol), 'may he have no rising' or 'never to rise' ( Beli ya'al). The etymology of the word is often understood as 'lacking worth', from two common words: beli- (Ч‘Ц°ЦјЧњЦґЧ™ 'without-') and ya'al (Ч™ЦёЧўЦ·Чњ 'to be of value'). 3.1 Resurrection of Jesus Christ (by Bartholomew)Д«elial is a Hebrew word 'used to characterize the wicked or worthless'.

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