The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Baal-zebub
(b´l-z´bb) (KEY) [Heb.,=lord of flies], a deliberate Hebrew distortion of the name of the god of Ekron in 2 Kings. In the Gospels of Mark and Luke, Beelzebul, the Greek form of the epithet Baal-zebul [Baal the Prince], is encountered. See Baal and Satan.