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Ben-hadad

Mentioned 892–884 BC traditional (Jones)

Son of the preceding, also king of Syria. He was long engaged in war against Israel.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

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3 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

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Places

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  1. location not graded: Syria3
  2. likely location: Damascus2
  3. likely location: Samaria1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 917–859 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 4 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

3 tagged verses in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 2 Kings3

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBBen-hadad 31
KJVBen-hadad 0
ASVBen-hadad 27

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Every verse

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2 Kings3 verses
  1. 6:24

    Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.

  2. 8:7

    Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”

  3. 8:9

    So Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Son of the preceding, also king of Syria. He was long engaged in war against Israel. He was murdered probably by Hazael, by whom he was succeeded (2 Kings 8:7-15), after a reign of some thirty years.