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Line 1: '''Baal-hanan''' ([[Hebrew languages\|Hebrew]]: ~~'''~~בַּעַל חָנָן~~'''~~ / ~~'''~~בָּעַל חָנָן~~'''~~, <small>[[Hebrew language#Modern Hebrew\|Standard]]</small> ''~~{{unicode\|Báʿal~~Baʿal ~~ḥanan}}~~Ḥanan'' <small>[[Tiberian vocalization\|Tiberian]]</small> ''~~{{unicode\|Báʿal~~Baʿal ~~ḥānān}}~~Ḥānān'' / ''~~{{unicode\|~~Bāʿal ~~ḥānān}}~~Ḥānān'') means "[[Baal]] ishas been gracious".<ref name="HalloYounger2000">{{cite book\|author1=William W. Hallo\|author2=K. Lawson Younger\|title=The Context of Scripture: Monumental inscriptions from the biblical world\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8s_YAAAAMAAJ\|date=1 January 2000\|publisher=Brill\|isbn=978-90-04-10619-2\|page=198}}</ref> There are two men by this name in the [[Hebrew Bible]]. In {{bibleverse\|Genesis\|\|36:38–39\|HE}}, ~~'''~~Baal-hanan~~'''~~ is a [[Monarch\|King]] of [[Edom]]. He is also mentioned in the King List in {{bibleverse\|I1\|Chronicles\|1:49–50\|HE}}. He succeeded [[Saul (Edomite king)\|Shaul]] and was himself succeeded by Hadad. He was the son of [[Achbor~~]], and his wife [[Mehetabel]] was the daughter of Matred and granddaughter of [[Mezahab~~]]. He is called the son of Achbor; but the name of his native city is not given. For this and other reasons, Marqaurt supposes that "son of Achbor" is a duplicate of "son of Beor" (Gen. 36:32), and that "Baal-hanan" in the original text is given as the name of the father of the next king, [[Hadar (Edomite king)\|Hadar]].<ref>Josef Markwart (Joseph Marquart)<!--name spelling changed in 1922-->, ''Fundamente Israelitischer und Jüdischer Gesch.'' 1896, pp. 10 et seq.</ref> The date and even historicity<ref name="Cook2016">{{cite book\|author=Joan E. Cook\|title=Genesis\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kWbJDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA110\|date=1 December 2016\|publisher=Liturgical Press\|isbn=978-0-8146-4768-4\|page=110}}</ref> of his reign are unknown, as he is not mentioned in any other surviving source. In the [[Books of Chronicles]] there is also a second man by this name, from the city of [[Geber (bible)\|Geder]]. In {{bibleverse\|I1\|Chronicles\|27:28\|HE}} he is described as being responsible to [[King David]] for the care of [[olive]] and [[ficus\|sycamore]] trees. {{s-start}} {{s-bef\|before=[[Saul (Edomite king)\|Saul of Rehoboth]]}} ~~{{succession~~ {{s-ttl\| ~~office~~ title= [[List of rulers of Edom\|King of Edom]]\|years=}} {{s-aft\| ~~preceded~~ after= [[~~Saul~~Hadar (Edomite king)\|~~Saul of Rehoboth~~Hadar]]}} {{s-end}} ~~\| succeeded = [[Hadar (Edomite king)\|Hadar]]~~ }} ==References== {{Reflist}} *{{JewishEncyclopedia\|url=http://~~www.~~jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=B&artid=7\|article=Baal-hanan}} [[Category:~~Hebrew~~Book ~~Bible~~of Genesis people]] [[Category:Kings of Edom]]