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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.
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.
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.
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.
Al-Walid ibn Mus'ab
Al-Walid ibn Mus'ab (الوليد بن مصعب) is a legendary Amalekite king of Egypt in medieval Arabic chronicles, identified by many Muslim traditionists as the Pharaoh of Moses.
Amminadab I of Ammon
Amminadab I was a king of Ammon in the mid-seventh century BC, attested in Assyrian records as a tribute-paying vassal, ruling from Rabbat-Ammon, modern Amman, Jordan.
Amminadab II of Ammon
Amminadab II was a king of Ammon in the later seventh century BCE, known only from the Tall Siran bronze bottle, which names him as son of King Hissal'el.
Ammuladdin
Ammuladdin, also known as Ammuladi, was a king of the Qedarites, an Arab tribal polity, who joined raids on Assyria's western provinces around 652 BC and was repulsed by the Moabites.
Aretas I (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas I, also known as Harithat, was the earliest known king of the Nabataeans, the Arab people whose capital was Petra, first named in the king list around 168 BC.
Aretas II (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas II (Nabataean ḥrtt, Arabic Ḥārthah) was king of the Nabataeans around 103–96 BC, known through Josephus and coins, and linked to the siege of Gaza.
Aretas III (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas III, also known as Aretas Philhellenos or Harithath III, was king of the Nabataeans from about 87 to 62 BC, ruling from Petra and taking Damascus.
Aretas IV (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas IV, also known as Harithath IV, was king of the Nabataeans from about 9 BC to AD 40, ruling from Petra at the kingdom's peak.
Aya-rammu
Aya-rammu, also rendered Aya-ramu or 'Ilāya-rām, was king of Edom around 701 BC, listed in Sennacherib's annals among the Levantine rulers who submitted to Assyria.
Azuri
Azuri was a king of Ashdod, a Philistine city and Assyrian vassal, whom Sargon II deposed in the 710s BC for withholding tribute and plotting against Assyria.
Baal-hanan
Baal-hanan (בַּעַל חָנָן) is an Edomite king in the Hebrew Bible's Genesis 36 list, the seventh of eight rulers who reigned before Israel had kings; he was the son of Achbor.
Baalis
Ba'alis was an early 6th-century BC king of the Ammonites, known from Jeremiah 40:14 and two seals, who sent the assassin that killed Gedaliah, Babylon's governor of Judah, after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC.
Baasha (king of Ammon)
Baasha, son of Ruhubi, was king of Ammon, a small kingdom in Transjordan, who led troops against Shalmaneser III of Assyria at Qarqar in 853 BC.
Bela ben Beor
Bela ben Beor, or Bela son of Beor, is the first named king of Edom in the biblical list of Genesis 36, reigning from the city Dinhabah.
Chemosh-yat
Chemosh-yat, also known as Kemosh-yatti, was a king of Moab in the ninth century BC, the father and predecessor of Mesha, who names him on the Mesha Stele.
Gamilat
Gamilat, also Gamilath, was a queen of the Nabataeans, sister of the last king Rabbel II, named on coins struck at Petra around 70 to 106 CE.
Gindibu
Gindibu was a king of the Arabs who fought Shalmaneser III at the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC with 1,000 camel riders, the earliest named Arab ruler.
Hanun (son of Nahash)
Hanun was a king of Ammon, son and successor of Nahash, reigning around the end of the eleventh century BC; his humiliation of David's envoys triggered the Ammonite–Israelite war.
Hanunu of Gaza
Hanunu of Gaza was king of Gaza in the 730s BC, known from the inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III; he fled to Egypt in 734 BC and was reinstated as an Assyrian vassal.
Hazael (king of Qedar)
Hazael, also spelled Hazail, was a seventh-century BC Arab ruler based at Adummatu, the first man named king of the Arabs in Assyrian records, attacked by Sennacherib around 690 BC.
Hissalel (king of Ammon)
Hissalel, also written Hissal'el or Hissa'il, was a king of the Ammonites in the 7th century BC, known from an inscribed bronze bottle found at Tell Siran, Jordan, in 1972.
Husham (Edomite king)
Husham is the third of the eight early kings of Edom in Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1, from the land of the Temanites, reigning between Jobab and Hadad.
Iatie (queen of the Arabs)
Iati'e was a queen of the Arabs, known only from two passages in the inscriptions of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, which name her to identify her captured brother Basqanu.
Jobab ben Zerah
Jobab ben Zerah, also known as Jobab of Bozrah, is a legendary king of Edom in Genesis 36, second in the list of eight pre-Israelite kings.