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Benhadad II was in all probability the son of Benhadad I. He is the Hadad-ezer, or Hadad-'idri, of the monuments.
Still another notice of Benhadad II is found in the Annals of Shalmaneser, who records that in the 11th year of his reign he defeated a combination of 12 kings of the Hittites with Benhadad at their head, and slew 10,000 men.
Benhadad III was the son of the usurper Hazael, and though not in the dynastic succesion, assumed on the dent h of his father the dynastic name.
When Benhadad II of Damascus with 32 allies besieged Samaria, Ahab drove him back (1 Ki 20:1–21) and a year later inflicted an even more severe defeat on him in the battle of Aphek (vs. 22–30), and captured him.
Benhadad promised to return certain cities which his father had conquered from Ahab’s father, Omri, or possibly, as some think, Baasha (see ch 15:18–22), and also made economic concessions by allowing Israelite merchants to open shops in the bazaars of Damascus (ch 20:31–34, RSV).
He tolerated a prophet’s rebuke for his foolish magnanimity toward Benhadad (ch 20:35–43) and showed sorrow for the murder of Naboth, which was instigated by Jezebel (ch 21:27–29), and for which the prophet held him accountable.
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