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Ben-Hadad (I)

I. BEN-HADAD, Son of Tabrimon King of Syria; he came to the assistance of Asa King of Judah, against Baasha King of Israel; and obliged Baasha to return and succour his own country, and abandon Ramah, 1 Kings xv. 18.which he had undertaken to fortify. This happened in the year of the world 3066. before the vulgar Æra 938. This Ben-hadad is 1 Kings xi. 25.probably Hadad the Edomite, who rebelled against Solomon at the end of this Prince’s reign.

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