Bar-Hadad III (
Aram.) (ܒܪ ܚܕܕ) or Ben-Hadad III (
Heb.) (בֶּן-הֲדַד) was king of
Aram Damascus
The Kingdom of Aram-Damascus () was an Aramean polity that existed from the late-12th century BCE until 732 BCE, and was centred around the city of Damascus in the Southern Levant. Alongside various tribal lands, it was bounded in its later ye ...
, the son and successor of
Hazael
Hazael (; he, חֲזָאֵל, translit=Ḥazaʾēl, or , romanized as: ; oar, 𐡇𐡆𐡀𐡋, translit= , from the triliteral Semitic root ''h-z-y'', "to see"; his full name meaning, " El/God has seen"; akk, 𒄩𒍝𒀪𒀭, Ḫa-za-’- il ...
. His succession is mentioned in
2 Kings (, ). He is thought to have ruled from 796 BC to 792 BC, although there are many conflicting opinions among
Biblical archaeologists
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as to the length of his reign.
The archaeological
Stele of Zakkur mentions "''Bar Hadad, son of Hazael''".
[Luis Robert Siddall]
''The Reign of Adad-nīrārī III: An Historical and Ideological Analysis of An Assyrian King and His Times.''
BRILL, 2013 p.37
See also
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Zakkur
Zakkur (or ''Zakir'') was the ancient king of Hamath and Luhuti (also known as Nuhašše) in Syria. He ruled around 785 BC. Most of the information about him comes from his basalt stele, known as the Stele of Zakkur.
History
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People from Damascus
792 BC deaths
8th-century BC Kings of Syria
Aramean kings
Year of birth unknown
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