entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_LEV_BAAL_ZEBUB,PER_ISR_IRON_AGE,high,"Philistine city-god of Ekron consulted as a healing oracle by King Ahaziah (2 Kings 1). Name = 'Lord of the Flies', almost certainly a Hebrew polemical distortion of an original Baal epithet ('zbl/Zebul' = 'Prince', as at Ugarit). The ORIGINAL deity behind the later Christian demon Beelzebub. Homonym note: distinct from the demon Beelzebul (ENT_CHR_BEELZEBUL), which is his reception.",SRC_DDD_BIBLE,reviewed