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Backsliding
In each instance this term is used when Israel turned away from the true and living God to worship the heathen nature gods and idols, usually referred to as Baals.
The term backsliding does not appear in the NT, but the idea is implied (
Bibliography
T. Rees, “Backsliding,” ISBE (1939), 376; V. H. Kooy, “Backsliding,” IDB, I (1962), 339; W. T. Purkiser, Exploring the Christian Faith (1960), 305ff.