Belial
Following Lucifer's death at the hands of Beelzebub and Belial, Sandalphon takes over his role as the Supreme Primarch and vows to protect the Sky Realm in his stead.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 1000 BCE
- Attested period
- -1000 – 200
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in 1 Samuel 2:12; the name may be synonymous with satan or may simply mean worthlessness.
Relationships
- allied with
- Beelzebub
- co occurs with
- troubling spirit, Lying Spirit, Mastema, Sandalphon, Abaddon
- enemy of
- Angel of Yahweh, Angel of Light, Christ
- served by
- angels of destruction
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Following Lucifer's death at the hands of Beelzebub and Belial, Sandalphon takes over his role as the Supreme Primarch and vows to protect the Sky Realm in his stead.”
#2233 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“1 Samuel 2:12 describes the sons of Eli as 'sons of Belial'; the name 'Belial' may be a synonym for 'satan', although elsewhere in the Bible 'belial' is a word meaning 'worthlessness'”
#2240 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Thanksgiving Hymns—a text found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947—tell of "the Sheol of Abaddon" and of the "torrents of Belial [that] burst into Abaddon".”
#2384 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Talmud and rabbinical interpretation generally present Belial as an allegorical personification of evil, consistent with its usage in the Torah and later Jewish texts. The phrase "sons of Belial" appears in various rabbinic writings”
#25876 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5