Hadadezer

Hadadezer

Hadadezer (Aramaic: הַדִדעֶזֶר ; "[the god] Hadad is help"); also known as Adad-Idri (Akkadian: 𒀭𒅎𒀉𒊑, romanized: dIM-id-ri), and possibly the same as Bar-Hadad II (Aram.) or Ben-Hadad II (Heb.), was the king of Aram at Damascus between 865 and 842 BC. The Hebrew Bible states that Hadadezer (which the biblical text calls "Ben-Hadad", but different from Ben-Hadad I and Ben-Hadad III) engaged in war against king Ahab of Israel, but was defeated and captured by him; however, soon after that the two kings signed a peace treaty and established an alliance (1 Kings 20). According to the Kurkh Monoliths, Hadadezer and Irhuleni of Hamath later led a coalition of eleven kings (including Ahab of Israel and Gindibu of the Arab) at the Battle of Qarqar against the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hadadezer has received more than 100,674 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hadadezer is the 9,733rd most popular politician (down from 9,559th in 2019).