Deuteronomy 13:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

In Deuteronomy 15:9 and in Nahum 1:11 the word “Belial” is rendered in our translation by the adjective “wicked.” The word means “worthlessness.”

(from Barnes’ Notes)

Deuteronomy 13:13

13 Certain men, the childrenc of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;