Side by side, from the sources
Beelzebub vs Baal Hadad
One of these is descended from the other: the later figure inherits the earlier one's name, and usually very little else. Baal-Zebul, 'prince Baal', deliberately misvocalised in Hebrew as Baal-Zebub, 'lord of the flies'.
Demonic · Infernal Court · c. 400 BCE
Beelzebub
also called Baalzebub, Beelzebul, Lord of the Flies, Baal-Zebul, Ba'al Zəbûb, Baal Zebub, Ba'al Zəbûl, Baal muian, Beelzeboul, Baʿl-zabūl, Baʿal Zəvûv, Baal Zebul, Ba'al Zebul, בַּעַל זְבוּב
'Lord of the Flies' — a Philistine god of Ekron whose name was almost certainly deformed as a Hebrew insult, then inherited by Christian demonology as the second power of hell.
- Alignment
- Infernal
- Rank
- Prince
- First attested
- Hebrew Bible & Deuterocanon · c. 900–100 BCE
- Named there as
- Baal-zebub
- Texts naming it
- 6
- Powers attributed
- 5
Deity · Canaanite · c. 1400 BCE
Baal Hadad
also called Ba'al, Hadad, Baal-Zebul, Rider of the Clouds
The Canaanite storm and fertility god who defeats Sea and Death — and whose title, *baal* ('lord'), the Hebrew Bible turns into a generic term for false gods.
- Alignment
- Disputed
- Rank
- Storm God
- First attested
- The Baal Cycle (Ugaritic Tablets) · c. 1400-1200 BCE
- Named there as
- Ba'lu / Haddu
- Texts naming it
- 2
- Powers attributed
- 3
Where do they actually overlap?
Texts naming both
Powers credited to both
No shared office is recorded. Where two figures are said to be the same and share no job description at all, the identification is usually doing polemical work rather than descriptive work.