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HADADEZER

(Heb. hăḏa0{ezer)

1. Aramean king of Zobah who was defeated by David; the son of Rehob (2 Sam. 8:3). The precise location of his city is not known, though scholars assume it was in the Beqaʿ Valley of Lebanon. It may be named in later Assyrian documents as a provincial center (ṣubatu) derived from the recently incorporated city of Damascus.

All that is known about this king are the accounts of his battle with David (2 Sam. 8:3-8 = 1 Chr. 18:3-8; 2 Sam. 10:1-19 = 1 Chr. 19:1-19). Zobah apparently exercised power throughout southern Syria, and inevitably clashed with the expanding empire of Israel. Eventually David was victorious, though the chronology and the result of the battle of 2 Sam. 10 are open to debate. Most scholars hold that it was the first battle, given the scope of the victory of 2 Sam. 8, , in which Hadadezer is reduced to vassalage.

2. An early 9th-century king of Damascus, whom most scholars associate with Ben-hadad II.

Mark Anthony Phelps

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HADADEZER

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)