Hadadezer ben Rehob
King of Zobah / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about Hadadezer in the Hebrew Bible. For the 9th Century BCE king of Aram-Damascus, see Hadadezer.
Hadadezer (bib Heb: Ḥăḏaḏeʹzer;[1] meaning "Hadad helps"), son of Rehob, was king of Zobah, a Syrian (Aramaean) kingdom that may have been in the Beqaa valley of Lebanon,[2] extended along the eastern side of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains reaching Hamath to the north.[3] The kingdom of Zobah exercised power throughout southern Syria, and inevitably clashed with the expanding empire of Israel.[1]