Of these 27 occurrences, the idiom "sons of Belial" (בְּנֵֽי־בְלִיַּעַל beni beliyaal) appears 15 times to indicate worthless people, including idolaters (Deuteronomy 13:13), the men of Gibeah (Judges 19:22, 20:13), and the sons of Eli (1 Samuel 2:12, Nabal and Shimei) and so on.
Of his own oratorios, mostly written in the 1760s, Paradise Lost (1760) was the greatest success (with words by Benjamin Stillingfleet); three later ones (Nabal, Rebecca, and Gideon) were largely reworkings of Handel's music.