📦El-Berith

Thing

El-Berith (El-Berith) has the same meaning as Baal-Berith.

Judges 8:33As soon as Gideon was dead, the people of Israel turned again and prostituted themselves to the Baals and made Baal-Berith their god.
Judges 9:46When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard this, they entered the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.

The people of Shechem worshipped foreign gods here.

Judges 9:46When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard this, they entered the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.Judges 9:47When Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem had gathered there,Judges 9:48Abimelech and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. He took an ax in his hand and cut off some branches, which he lifted and carried on his shoulder. He said to the men with him, “Quick! Do what you have seen me do!”AbimelechJudges 9:49So all the people cut branches, each man following Abimelech, and laid them against the stronghold. Then they set the stronghold on fire, and all the people in the Tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women.

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