Qur'anic verses - Baal .. the sun-god!:

After the death of King Solomon, peace be upon him, the kingdom of Israel started to deteriorate and the righteous people had to face unpleasant fate of banishment and physical elimination. In the New Testament (Romans 11:3-4), Elias appealed to God against Israel for that they served the false god and slain the righteous.

According to the Old Testament (1 Kings 22:52-53), during the reign of Ahab and Ahaziah, kings of Israel in the 9th century B.C., the Israelites had descended so low as to worship, Baal, the sun-god, instead of the One True God, the Creator of the sun and all universe. Elias painstakingly preached to them to abandon Baal and warned them of God's wrath if they continued in overstepping His bounds. All prophets taught, firstly, the permanent worship of God which is the very meaning of this life. God's Oneness is the truth that all mankind should realize, and must be reflected in our actions in all aspects of life. By the true concept of monotheism, the worldly life would be meaningful and fruitful through the coordination of the spiritual and the material aspects of human life.

It is interesting to note that, in the New Testament (Luke 4:25), Jesus told his audience from the Jews, in a Sabbath Day, as how the famine hit the kingdom of Israel for rejecting the call of Elias. The speech of Jesus had angered his audience who drove him out of his town, the Nazareth (Luke 4:28-29). Infidelity and lack of faith were the attributes of many of them;

Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary: because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses.
[Qur'an 5:78]