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'Ain Samiya goblet
The 'Ain Samiya goblet is a conical silver cup decorated with mythological scenes, found in 1970 in a Bronze Age tomb near 'Ain Samiya in the Judean Hills.
Abba-El I
Abba-El I of Yamhad was a Bronze Age Syrian king centered on Halab, known for suppressing a revolt, destroying Irridu, and granting Alalakh to his brother Yarim-Lim.
Abba-El II
Abba-El II was a king of Yamhad, the Bronze Age Syrian kingdom centered on Halab (modern Aleppo), belonging to the dynasty restored after the Hittite destructions.
Abdi-Ashirta
Abdi-Ashirta, also written Abdi-Ashtarta, was the ruler of Amurru in mid-fourteenth-century BCE Syria, known almost entirely from the Amarna letters as the adversary of Rib-Hadda of Byblos.
Abdi-Heba
Abdi-Heba (Abdi-Ḫeba), also written Abdi-Kheba, was the ruler of Jerusalem in the mid-14th century BC during the Amarna period, pleading in seven letters for Egyptian troops.
Abdi-Tirshi
Abdi-Tirshi (Abdi-Tershi) was the Canaanite ruler of Hazor in the mid-14th century BC, the only northern Canaanite leader styled "king" in the Amarna letters to Akhenaten.
Abiathar
Abiathar (Hebrew Ebyathar) was a high priest of Israel under King David around 1000 BC, the sole survivor of the massacre of the priests at Nob.
Abijam
Abijam, also called Abijah, was the son of Rehoboam and second king of Judah after the kingdom divided, reigning in Jerusalem around 913 to 911 BC.
Abimilki (king of Tyre)
Abimilki, also written Abi-milku, was ruler of the Levantine city of Tyre in the mid-14th century BC, known from ten letters he sent to the Egyptian pharaoh.
Abishai (Biblical figure)
Abishai (Hebrew אֲבִישַׁי) was, according to the books of Samuel and Chronicles, a commander in King David's army, second only to his brother Joab, and eldest son of Zeruiah, David's sister.
Abiyate (king of Qedar)
Abiyate, son of Te'ri, was an Arab king of the Qedarites in the 7th century BC, installed by Ashurbanipal of Assyria in place of Yauta' and bound by treaty and annual tribute.
Abner
Abner (Hebrew Avner) was a kinsman of King Saul and commander of his army who transferred the northern kingdom to David, and was murdered by Joab at Hebron around 1010 BC.
Achbor
Achbor, also known as Akhbor, is a biblical figure named in Genesis 36 as the father of Baal-hanan, the seventh of the kings of Edom.
Achish (king of Ekron)
Achish, rendered Ikausu in Assyrian records, was a seventh-century BC king of Ekron, son of Padi, known from the Ekron dedication inscription found in 1996.
Adad-Nirari of Nuhašše
Adad-Nirari of Nuhašše, also vocalized Addu-nirari, was a Bronze Age king of Nuhašše in inland Syria, known from his Amarna letter EA 51 to the pharaoh of Egypt.
Adda-danu
Adda-danu was a ruler of Gazru, biblical Gezer, in the mid-14th century BC, known only as the author of two Amarna letters to the pharaoh.
Addaya
Addaya, also known as Addaia, was an Egyptian commissioner stationed in Canaan during the Amarna age of the mid-14th century BCE, serving under Amenhotep III and Akhenaten and appearing in the Amarna letters.
Adiya (queen of the Arabs)
Adiya, also written Adiye, was a queen of the Arabs recorded in the annals of Assurbanipal, dated to 650–647 BC and captured after the Arabs were defeated.
Adon (king of Ekron)
Adon was a Levantine king of the late 7th century BC, conventionally identified as king of Ekron, known only from an Aramaic letter appealing to Pharaoh for help.
Ahatmilku
Ahatmilku, also written Ahat-milki, was a 13th-century BC queen of Ugarit, wife of King Niqmepa and mother of King Ammiṯtamru II, known from tablets excavated at Ras Shamra.
Ahaz
Ahaz, also known as Jehoahaz II, was king of Judah in the 8th century BC, son of Jotham and father of Hezekiah, who made Judah an Assyrian vassal.
Ahaziah of Israel
Ahaziah of Israel (Hebrew אֲחַזְיָה), son of Ahab and Jezebel, was king of Israel for about two years in the mid-9th century BC, dying after a fall in Samaria.
Ahaziah of Judah
Ahaziah of Judah, also called Jehoahaz, was a king of Judah who reigned less than a year and was killed in Jehu's coup in 841 BC.
Ahijah of Shiloh
Ahijah of Shiloh, or Ahijah the Shilonite, was an Israelite prophet of the 10th century BC who foretold that Jeroboam would rule ten tribes breaking from Solomon's house.
Ahikam son of Shaphan
Ahikam (Hebrew אֲחִיקָם) was a high royal official of Judah in the late 7th century BC, son of the secretary Shaphan, father of Gedaliah, and protector of Jeremiah.
Ahimaaz
Ahimaaz, also rendered Achimaas, was the son of the high priest Zadok and a courier for David during Absalom's revolt, outrunning the Cushite to bring news of the victory.
Ahimelech
Ahimelech, also spelled Ahimelek, was a priest at Nob during Saul's reign who gave fleeing David the showbread and Goliath's sword, and was killed on Doeg's denunciation.
Ahimiti (king of Ashdod)
Ahimiti, also Aḫimti, was a king of the Philistine city of Ashdod, placed on the throne by Sargon II after the deposition of his brother Azuri.
Ahinoam
Ahinoam, also known as Achinoam, of Jezreel was a wife of David and mother of his firstborn son Amnon; she married David during his outlaw years around 1000 BC.
Ahithophel
Ahithophel, also spelled Ahitophel (Hebrew אֲחִיתֹפֶל), was the Gilonite counselor of King David in the Hebrew Bible; he defected to Absalom's revolt and, when his advice was thwarted, hanged himself.