Passage

1 Kings 16

• Glossary Term

  Asherah

  Proper name of a Canaanite goddess/her cult object; transliterated, requires a brief explanatory gloss.

  1KI.16.31-33

• Glossary Term

  Baal

  CRITICAL: proper name of the Canaanite storm/fertility god, kept as a transliteration.

  1KI.16.31-33

• Doctrine

  Baal Worship

  CRITICAL: Baal and Asherah worship, sponsored by Ahab and Jezebel, is the central religious conflict of 1 Kings 16-19; requires explicit explanation of what these cults represented (rival fertility/storm deities) since Spanish-speaking readers have no automatic cultural referent for this specific ancient Near Eastern religion, unlike the more familiar risk of generic idolatry.

  1KI.16.31-33