Ben-Hadad
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Ben-Hadad

1. A king of Dama scene Syria, hired by Asa king of Judah to make war upon Baasha king of Israel, 1 Kings 15:18-22. He ravaged a large part of Naphtali.

2. Son and successor of the preceding. In two successive years he raised large armies, and made war upon Ahab king of Israel. He was utterly routed by the aid of Jehovah, God of the hills and the plains also, 1 Kings 20:1-43. Ahab spared him, contrary to the command of God and gave him conditions of peace. These do not seem to have been fulfilled, for three years after, Ahab renewed the war and was slain, 1 Kings 22:1-53 After about nine years, Ben-hadad again invaded Israel, and the prophet Elisha was instrumental in frustrating his plans, 2 Kings 6:8-23. But once more renewing the war, he laid siege to Samaria, and reduced it to extremities by famine. God sent a sudden panic upon his army by night, and they fled precipitately, 2 Kings 6:17 7:6 Proverbs 28:1. Shortly before his death, Ben-hadad, being sick, sent Hazael to ask the prophet Elisha, then at Damascus, what the issue would be. The prophet answered that the disease was not mortal, and yet he would surely die; a paradox which Hazael soon after solved by stifling his master in bed, 2 Kings 8:7-15

3. Son of the Hazael just named. His father had greatly afflicted and oppressed Israel; but he lost all that his father had gained, being thrice defeated by king Jehoash, 2 Kings 13:1-25.

Easton's Bible Dictionary
The standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning "the son of Hadad." (see HADADEZER.)

(1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18).

(2.) 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.

(3.) King of Damascus, and successor of his father Hazael on the throne of Syria (2 Kings 13:3, 4). His misfortunes in war are noticed by Amos (1:4).

Strong's Hebrew
1130. Ben-hadad -- "son of Hadad," the name of several Aramean ...
Ben-hadad. 1129, 1130. Ben-hadad. 1131 . "son of Hadad," the name of
several Aramean (Syrian) kings. Transliteration: Ben-hadad ...
/hebrew/1130.htm - 6k
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How Hadad King of Damascus and of Syria, Made Two Expeditions ...
... 1. When the affairs of Ahab were thus, at that very time the son of Hadad, [Benhadad,]
who was king of the Syrians and of Damascus, got together an army out of ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 14 how hadad king.htm

Book 9 Footnotes
... Nor does it seem to me otherwise but that Benhadad immediately recovered of his
disease, as the prophet foretold; and that Hazael, upon his being anointed to ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/book 9 footnotes.htm

The Story of Hazael
... and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels'
burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the story of hazael.htm

Jehoram Succeeds Jehoshaphat; How Joram, his Namesake, King of ...
... And when Benhadad missed of the success of his lying in ambush, he was wroth with
his own servants, as if they had betrayed his ambushment to Joram; and he ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 4 jehoram succeeds jehoshaphat.htm

The Nations of the North-East
... "Damask couches" were already famous, and Ahab sent a contingent of 10,000 men and
2000 chariots to the help of Ben-Hadad II. in his war against Assyria. ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iv the nations of.htm

Concerning Jehoshaphat the King of Jerusalem and How Ahab Made an ...
... being in number about four hundred, and bid them inquire of God whether he would
grant him the victory, if he made an expedition against Benhadad, and enable ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 15 concerning jehoshaphat the.htm

The Kingdom of Samaria.
... These Syrians were appointed to bring punishment upon Samaria; but at first, two
great victories were vouchsafed to Ahab, because Benhadad, King of Syria ...
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Absolute Surrender
... ABSOLUTE SURRENDER. "And Ben-hadad the king of ... What Ben Hadad asked was absolute
surrender; and what Ahab gave was what was asked of him"absolute surrender. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/murray/absolute surrender/absolute surrender.htm

Meditations against Despair, or Doubting of God's Mercy.
... cxl.3.) Had Judas apprehended this word friend out of the mouth of Christ, as Benhadad
did the word brother from the mouth of Ahab, doubtless Judas should have ...
/.../bayly/the practice of piety/meditations against despair or doubting.htm

Songs in the Night
... You remember Benhadad, when he was overcome and conquered, and Ahab was
after him. Some said to him, "We know that the kings of ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 44 1898/songs in the night.htm

Thesaurus
Benhadad (24 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BENHADAD. ...Benhadad seems to have become a general
designation for the kings of Syria (Amos 1:4 Jeremiah 49:27). ...
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Ben-hadad (27 Occurrences)
Ben-hadad. Benhadad, Ben-hadad. Ben-ha'dad . Easton's Bible Dictionary ... (ASV
BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV). Benhadad, Ben-hadad. Ben-ha'dad . Reference Bible
/b/ben-hadad.htm - 16k

Ben-hadad's (2 Occurrences)
Ben-hadad's. Ben-ha'dad, Ben-hadad's. Benhail . Multi-Version
Concordance Ben-hadad's (2 Occurrences). 1 Kings 20:9 ...
/b/ben-hadad's.htm - 7k

Ben-ha'dad (26 Occurrences)
... Ben-hadad, Ben-ha'dad. Ben-hadad's . ... 1 Kings 20:2 He sent messengers to Ahab
king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, "Thus says BenHadad, (See RSV) ...
/b/ben-ha'dad.htm - 14k

Ben (40 Occurrences)
... of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them
into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to BenHadad, the son ...
/b/ben.htm - 20k

Hadad (38 Occurrences)
... whose name is found in Scripture in the names of Syrian kings, Benhadad, Hadadezer. ...
into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to BenHadad, the son ...
/h/hadad.htm - 21k

Ijon (3 Occurrences)
... A ruin, a city of Naphtali, captured by Ben-hadad of Syria at the instance of Asa
(1 Kings 15:20), and afterwards by Tiglath-pileser of Assyria (2 Kings 15:29 ...
/i/ijon.htm - 8k

Rezon (3 Occurrences)
... The name appears to be given as chezyon; Hazein (1 Kings 15:18; see HEZION), where
he is the father of Tabrimmon, whose son Ben-hadad I is known through his ...
/r/rezon.htm - 9k

Sama'ria (102 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 20:1 And Ben-hadad the king of Aram gathered all his host together; and
there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots; and he went ...
/s/sama'ria.htm - 34k

Treaty (25 Occurrences)
... with Hiram, king of Tyre (1 Kings 5:15); Asa, to rid himself of the hostile approaches
of Baasha, king of Israel, entered into a league with Ben-hadad of Syria ...
/t/treaty.htm - 16k

Resources
Who was Ben-Hadad in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean that God is the God of the hills and valleys (1 Kings 20:28)? | GotQuestions.org

Who was King Baasha in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

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Concordance
Ben-hadad (27 Occurrences)

1 Kings 15:18
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 15:20
And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:1
And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:2
And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
(ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:3
And they said to him, Ben-hadad says, Your silver and your gold are mine; and your wives and children are mine.
(BBE JPS YLT)

1 Kings 20:5
And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, I sent indeed unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:9
Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:10
And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:12
And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
(KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:16
And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:17
And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out from Samaria.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:20
And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:26
And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:32
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS)

1 Kings 20:33
Now the men observed diligently, and hasted to catch whether it were his mind; and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Kings 20:34
And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
(KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS NIV)

2 Kings 6:24
Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.
(BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Kings 8:7
And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was ill; and they said to him, The man of God has come.
(BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Kings 8:9
So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease?
(BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Kings 13:3
So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.
(BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Kings 13:24
Then Hazael, king of Aram, came to his end; and Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.
(BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Kings 13:25
And Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, took again from Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, the towns which he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Jehoash overcame him and got back the towns of Israel.
(BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 16:2
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Jehovah and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 16:4
And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store-cities of Naphtali.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 49:27
And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Amos 1:4
but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
(ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Ben-Hadad

Ben-Hadad: A King of Syria, Who Reigned During the Time of Ahab, Son of Ben-Hadad I

Ben-Hadad: King of Syria

Ben-Hadad: Son of Hazael and King of Syria

Related Terms

Ben-hadad (27 Occurrences)

Ben-hadad's (2 Occurrences)

Ben-ha'dad (26 Occurrences)

Ben (40 Occurrences)

Hadad (38 Occurrences)

Ijon (3 Occurrences)

Rezon (3 Occurrences)

Sama'ria (102 Occurrences)

Treaty (25 Occurrences)

Naaman (19 Occurrences)

Mustered (28 Occurrences)

Aphek (9 Occurrences)

Hezion (1 Occurrence)

Haz'ael (21 Occurrences)

Ahab (85 Occurrences)

Hazael (23 Occurrences)

Syrians (63 Occurrences)

Asa (54 Occurrences)

Aram (130 Occurrences)

Damascus (58 Occurrences)

Nebuchadrezzar (31 Occurrences)

Omen (6 Occurrences)

Thirty-two (15 Occurrences)

Temporary (13 Occurrences)

Tabrimmon (1 Occurrence)

Tabrimon (1 Occurrence)

Ramothgilead (19 Occurrences)

Representatives (26 Occurrences)

Ramoth-gilead (20 Occurrences)

Micaiah (27 Occurrences)

Phrase (2 Occurrences)

Pavilions (3 Occurrences)

Besieged (34 Occurrences)

Booths (24 Occurrences)

Catching (6 Occurrences)

Conquered (20 Occurrences)

Abel-beth-maachah (2 Occurrences)

Abelbethmaachah (2 Occurrences)

Abel-beth-maacah (2 Occurrences)

Aramaeans (49 Occurrences)

Shelters (9 Occurrences)

Arameans (61 Occurrences)

Shutting (43 Occurrences)

Jehoahaz (22 Occurrences)

Attacking (73 Occurrences)

Agreed (31 Occurrences)

Carriage (32 Occurrences)

Treasuries (36 Occurrences)

Stores (53 Occurrences)

Palaces (37 Occurrences)

Alliance (12 Occurrences)

Fortresses (45 Occurrences)

Samaria (123 Occurrences)

Demand (34 Occurrences)

Strongholds (44 Occurrences)

Naph'tali (47 Occurrences)

Catch (46 Occurrences)

Layeth (76 Occurrences)

Pick (37 Occurrences)

Nebuchadnezzar (90 Occurrences)

Commanders (93 Occurrences)

Observed (84 Occurrences)

Treasures (77 Occurrences)

Quick (49 Occurrences)

Forces (123 Occurrences)

Captivity (141 Occurrences)

Escaped (94 Occurrences)

Syria (73 Occurrences)

Watching (111 Occurrences)

Diligently (85 Occurrences)

Galilee (73 Occurrences)

Camel (13 Occurrences)

Chariot (102 Occurrences)

Naphtali (51 Occurrences)

Abel (22 Occurrences)

Sickness (40 Occurrences)

Trade (33 Occurrences)

Warfare (18 Occurrences)

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