Atlas Biblica

    person

    Hadadezer

    הֲדַרְעֶ֫זֶר

    Hadadezer, king of Zobah, was defeated by King David in battle, and his allies, the Arameans, became subject to Israel.

    verses
    18
    first named
    2 Samuel 8:3
    last named
    1 Chronicles 19:19
    period
    United Monarchy
    tribe
    Syria

    Description

    Who was Hadadezer?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Hadadezer was the king of Zobah, an Aramean kingdom, during the reign of King David of Israel. He is mentioned in 2Samuel 8, 10, and 1Chronicles 18, 19. Hadadezer went to restore his control along the Euphrates River, but David defeated him, capturing many of his chariots, horsemen, and foot soldiers (2Sa.8.3-4, 1 Chronicles 2Sa.18.3-4). David also took gold shields from Hadadezer's officers and brought them to Jerusalem (2Sa.8.7, 1 Chronicles 2Sa.18.7). When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, David defeated them as well, and they became subject to Israel (2Sa.8.5-6, 1 Chronicles 2Sa.18.5-6). Later, when David's messengers were mistreated by the Ammonites, Hadadezer sent his army to help the Ammonites fight against Israel (2Sa.10.16, 1 Chronicles 2Sa.19.16). However, Joab and Abishai, David's commanders, defeated the Arameans and the Ammonites. After this defeat, Hadadezer's allies made peace with Israel and became subject to them (2Sa.10.19, 1 Chronicles 2Sa.19.19). The biblical account portrays Hadadezer as a powerful king who posed a significant threat to Israel, but was ultimately defeated by David and his army.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Hadadezer 8 of 8 entities the graph connects to Hadadezer, in 3 groups: kinship 1, company 1, events 6. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.RehobChild of · 2 versesKinshipHadadezer ArmyAssociated with · 2 versesCompanyDavid5 events · 964 versesSyria3 events · 116 versesEuphrates2 events · 61 versesDominion1 event · 18 versesToi1 event · 4 versesRezon1 event · 1 verseEventsHadadezer

    Associated with

    Child of

    Stands in the same events as

    • David5 events
    • Syria3 events
    • Euphrates2 events
    • Dominion1 event
    • David’s defeat of Hadadezer and Entire Army Of Hadadezer1 event
    • Toi1 event
    • David and Your People’s fighting1 event
    • Rezon1 event

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Hadadezer happens All 2 places the claims about Hadadezer reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Zobah, Euphrates. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Hadadezer there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.ZobahEuphrates
    United MonarchyAll 2 places the claims about Hadadezer reach

    The pattern

    Where Hadadezer is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 18 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS2 SAMUEL–1 KINGS10 VERSES53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 18 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS2 SAMUEL–1 KINGS10 VERSES53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Hadadezer is named in 18 verses, and the name is written 21 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 18, across 3 books. The name is written 21 times in them.

    1. 2 Samuel9 verses

      8:38:58:78:88:98:108:1210:1610:19

    2. 1 Kings1 verse

      11:23

    3. 1 Chronicles8 verses

      18:318:518:718:818:918:1019:1619:19

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one.

    via Hadadezer ArmyArmyArmy is a concept gathering 115 labelled instances in the text.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on