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Baalis
BAALIS (bā'a-līs, Heb. ba‘alîs). A king of the Ammonites who reigned soon after Nebuchadnezzar’s capture of Jerusalem. He instigated the murder of Gedaliah (
BAALIS bā ə lĭs (בַּעֲלִ֣יס). The king of the children of Ammon (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
ba`lic, perhaps for Baalim, "gods"; Septuagint Beleisa, Belisa, [Baalis]; Ant, X, ix, 3, Baalimos: King of the children of Ammon, the instigator of the murder of Gedaliah (