# Baalis

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**Baalis** (Hebrew: בַּעֲלִיס, *Ba‘ălīs*; [Ammonite](/source/Ammonite_language): 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤔𐤏, *B‘LYŠ‘*) is the name given in the [Book of Jeremiah](/source/Book_of_Jeremiah) for the king of [Ammon](/source/Ammon_(nation)). He instigated the murder of [Gedaliah](/source/Gedaliah), the Babylonian-appointed [Jewish](/source/Jewish) governor of [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem).

In 1984 an Ammonite seal, dated to c. 600 BCE, was excavated in Tell El-`Umeiri, [Jordan](/source/Jordan) that reads "*belonging to Milkomor, the servant of Baalisha*". Identification of 'Baalisha' with the biblical Baalis is likely,[1] but it is currently unknown if there was only one Ammonite king of that name.[2]

## Sources

[https://web.archive.org/web/20061022182148/http://www.robert-deutsch.com/en/monographs/m7/](https://web.archive.org/web/20061022182148/http://www.robert-deutsch.com/en/monographs/m7/)

## References

1. Grabbe, Lester L., *Can a 'History of Israel' Be Written?*, Continuum International, 1997, pp. 80–82 [\[1\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=pk7Oy64C2fYC&pg=PA80)

1. Mykytiuk, Lawrence J., *Identifying Biblical persons in Northwest Semitic inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E.*, Society of Biblical Literature, 2004, *Baalis*: p. 242 [\[2\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=eprY1Qd0veAC&pg=PA242); *Jeroboam*: p. 136 [\[3\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=eprY1Qd0veAC&pg=PA136)

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