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• Hiram

  [People]

  Hiram was king of Tyre, a Phoenician port city, during the reigns of David and Solomon. He supplied timber and craftsmen for the building of the Temple and the royal palace in Jerusalem, and he joined Solomon in maritime trade.

• Nabonidus

  [People]

  Nabonidus was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (reigned 556–539 BC). Although he is not named in the Bible, he is known as the father of Belshazzar, who appears in the Book of Daniel.

• Achish

  [People]

  Achish was king of the Philistine city of Gath. He twice received David when David fled from Saul, and he gave David the town of Ziklag.

• Aretas

  [People]

  Aretas was a king of Nabataea (northern Arabia) whose name appears in the passage where the apostle Paul recalls a crisis he faced in Damascus. Scholars usually identify him as Aretas IV.

• Nahash

  [People]

  Nahash was king of the Ammonites in the time of Saul and David. He besieged Jabesh-gilead and was defeated by Saul. After his death, David sent envoys to his son Hanun to offer condolences.

• Esarhaddon

  [People]

  Esarhaddon was a king of Assyria who succeeded Sennacherib after Sennacherib was murdered by his sons. He is mentioned briefly by name in 2 Kings, Isaiah, and Ezra.

• Menahem

  [People]

  Menahem was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel in the mid-eighth century BC. He came to the throne by killing Shallum, reigned ten years in Samaria, and paid a thousand talents of silver to Pul, king of Assyria (2 Kings 15).

• Hanun

  [People]

  Hanun was king of the Ammonites in the time of David, succeeding his father Nahash at his death. By humiliating the envoys David sent to console him, he provoked war between Israel and Ammon (2 Samuel 10; 1 Chronicles 19).

• Tirhakah

  [People]

  Tirhakah was a king of Cush (the Nubian region of the upper Nile) mentioned in 2 Kings 19 and Isaiah 37. He appears only in a report that he had come out to fight against Assyria when the Assyrian king Sennacherib attacked Judah.

• Mesha

  [People]

  Mesha was a king of Moab around the ninth century BC. He paid tribute to the northern kingdom of Israel but rebelled after the death of Ahab. He appears in 2 Kings 3, and his name is also preserved on an extrabiblical artifact, the Mesha Stele.

• Shallum

  [People]

  Shallum was the fifteenth king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He killed King Zechariah, seized the throne, and reigned in Samaria for one month before Menahem killed him (2 Kings 15).

• Chedorlaomer

  [People]

  Chedorlaomer was a king of Elam mentioned in Genesis 14. He led a coalition of four kings against five kings of the Jordan region and took Lot captive, but was afterward defeated by Abram.

• Pekahiah

  [People]

  Pekahiah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel who succeeded his father Menahem and reigned in Samaria for two years before he was killed in a conspiracy led by his captain Pekah (2 Kings 15:22–26).

• Toi

  [People]

  Toi was a king of Hamath in the time of David. When he heard that David had defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, he sent his son to greet David and present him with gifts. In 1 Chronicles his name is spelled "Tou."

• Elah

  [People]

  Elah was the fourth king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Baasha. He reigned two years in Tirzah and was killed while drunk in a revolt led by his servant Zimri.

• Hezion

  [People]

  Hezion is a king of Aram named only in 1 Kings 15:18, where he appears as the father of Tabrimon and the grandfather of Ben-hadad, king of Syria.

• Tou

  [People]

  Tou was a king of Hamath in the time of David. When David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, Tou sent his son to greet David and present him with gifts. In 2 Samuel he appears under the name Toi.

• Tiglath-pileser

  [People]

  Tiglath-pileser was an eighth-century BC king of Assyria. In 2 Kings and Chronicles he appears as the ruler who conquered Galilee and the territory east of the Jordan belonging to the northern kingdom of Israel and carried its inhabitants into captivity.

• Pekah

  [People]

  Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king of the northern kingdom of Israel through a coup. His alliance with Rezin king of Aram against Judah forms the background of the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah 7.

• Arioch

  [People]

  Arioch appears in Daniel 2 as the captain of the guard (the chief of the officials responsible for the king's protection and for carrying out executions) under Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. During the episode of the king's dream, he brought Daniel before the king.