Type: Broken Idol of Ba'al
Age: 2000-1600 BCE
Era: Middle Bronze Age 
Culture: Canaanite
Excavated: Israel

”Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm-and neither can they do any good.” Jeremiah 10:5

Ba'al was a prominent idol worshiped by many cultures in the Near East. Throughout the Old Testament, the LORD regularly rebukes his people, Israel, when they would worship Ba'al, Ashtaroth, or another foreign deity. Often, the idols were broken as part of a ritual; however, some of the Judean Kings (e.g. Hezekiah), made it a personal goal to destroy and discard these idols.