
	Where results make sense

Topic: Hazael

In the News (Sat 5 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Hazael - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hazael (Hebrew Hazael, meaning "God has seen") was a court official and later an Aramean king who appeared in the Bible.
		After defeating them at Ramoth-Gilead, Hazael repelled two attacks by the Assyrians, seized Israelite territory east of the Jordan, the Philistine city of Gath, and sought to take Jerusalem as well (2 Kings 12:17).
		King Joash of Judah forestalled Hazael's invasion by bribing him with treasure from the royal palace and temple, after which he disappears from the Biblical account.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hazael (210 words)

	Hazael (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hazael protested against the very thought of such things, but Elisha assured him that Yahweh had shown him that he was to be king of Syria.
		So grievous was the oppression of the Syrians that Hazael "left not to Jehoahaz, of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing" (2 Kings 13:1-7).
		Hazael of Damascus trusted to the strength of his armies and mustered his troops in full force.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/4170 (964 words)

	Hazael
		Hazael gained the throne of Damascus through a palace coup, and was energetic in expanding the holdings of Syria.
		The end of Hazael’s life is lost in the murk of time.
		Whatever the case, Assyria had made Syria, including Damascus, tributary sometime during Hazael’s reign, although Assyria did not seem to intervene in the local politics.
	www.ancientroute.com /people/Hazael.htm (141 words)

	Hazael -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Years after this, the Syrian king Ben-hadad was ill and sent his court official Hazael with gifts to Elijah's successor (Click link for more info and facts about Elisha) Elisha.
		The day after he returned to Ben-hadad in (An ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus) Damascus, Hazael suffocated him and seized power himself.
		King (Click link for more info and facts about Joash) Joash of Judah forestalled Hazael's invasion by bribing him with treasure from the royal palace and temple, after which he disappears from the Biblical account.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hazael.htm (139 words)

	Hazael (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		His interview with Elisha is mentioned in 2 Kings 8.
		The Assyrians soon after his accession to the throne came against him and defeated him with very great loss; and three years afterwards again invaded Syria, but on this occasion Hazael submitted to them.
		He then turned his arms against Israel, and ravaged "all the land of Gilead," etc. (2 Kings 10:33), which he held in a degree of subjection to him (13:3-7, 22).
	christiananswers.net /dictionary/hazael.html (198 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hazael (Ancient History, Middle East, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Hazael (Ancient History, Middle East, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		In the Bible he appears as the ally of the party of Elisha in Israel and later as the conqueror, taking all the Hebrew possessions E of the Jordan, ravaging Judah, and rendering Israel impotent.
		From inscriptions of Shalmaneser III of Assyria it appears that Hazael withstood an attack by the Assyrian army and kept Damascus, Syria, and Palestine independent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hazael.html (184 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Israel
		Israel's deadly foe was the Syrian king Hazael, who had also reached the throne by the murder of his master, Benadad II.
		The Syrian king secured for Damascus not only Basan and Galaad, and the whole of the country east of the Jordan, but also Western Palestine, destroyed the Philistine city of Geth, and was bought off by Joas of Juda with the richest spoil of his palace and temple.
		Joachaz (814-797 B.C.), the son and successor of Jehu, was compelled during the greater part of his reign to accept from Hazael and his son, Bernadad III, the most humiliating conditions yet imposed upon a King of Israel (cf.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08193a.htm (6958 words)

	Assyria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Despite Shalmaneser's description of vanquishing the opposition, it seems that the battle ended in a deadlock, as the Assyrian forces were withdrawn soon afterwards.
		Shalmaneser retook Carchemish in 849, and in 841, marched an army against Hazael, king of Damascus, besieging and taking that city.
		He also brought under tribute Jehu of Israel, Tyre and Sidon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assyria (1846 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)