| Deuteronomy 13:13
| Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:
| Belial: that is, without yoke. Hence the wicked, who refuse to be subject to the divine law, are called in Scripture the sons of Belial. (Challoner) --- The devil is called Belial, or "an apostate, rebel," etc. The word is also applied to Antichrist, to idols, and to those who are notoriously wicked. (St. Jerome in Nahum 1., and Isaias 27.; 3 Kings 21:13.)
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