Baal Zebub of the Philistine Ekron became the Beelzebub who was equivalent to Satan.

Its maintenance of a sanctuary of Baal Zebub is mentioned in 2 Kings i.

According to these analogies we should expect Zebub to be a place.

No place Zebub, however, is known; and it has been objected that the Baal of some other place would hardly be the god of Ekron.

Usually Zebub is identified with a Hebrew common noun zebub = flies,' occurring twice in the Old Testament, 2 so that Baalzebub " is the Baal to whom flies belong or are holy.