[1] So Clarendon Press, Hebrew Lexicon, p. 127, with LXX.

[2] Eccl. x. 1; Isaiah vii. 18.

[3] Baethgen, Beitrage zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte, p. 25, cf. pp. 65, 261.

[4] Josh, xii. 7.

[5] Art. “Baalzebub,” Black and Cheyne’s Ency. Bibl.

[6] With various spellings (e.g. Belzebul, and in XB, Beezebul), all variants of Beelzebul. Cf. Deissmann, Bible Studies, 332.

[7] There is a variation of reading, which has been held to support the view that the passage means that men reproached Jesus with His supposed connexion with Beelzebul; cf. A.B. Bruce, in loco.

[8] And in the parallel passages, Matt. xii. 22-29; Luke xi. 14-22.

[9] Cf. John vii. 20, viii. 48, 52, x. 20.

[10] Swete, in loco.