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Kabir'il (king of Dedan)
Kabir'il (Dadanitic kbrʾl, Arabic كبر إل), son of Mata'il, was one of the few named kings of Dedan in north-west Arabia, conventionally placed in the 6th century BC and known only from Dadanitic inscriptions.
Kamas-halta
Kamas-halta, whose name means "Kemosh is strength", was a king of Moab in the 7th century BC, known from Neo-Assyrian records including cylinder B of Ashurbanipal.
Kammusu-nadbi
Kammusu-nadbi, also rendered Chemosh-nadab, was a king of Moab, the Iron Age kingdom east of the Dead Sea, who brought gifts to Sennacherib in 701 BC.
Mata'il (king of Dedan)
Mata'il was a king of Dadan at the al-ʿUlā oasis in northwest Arabia, known from Dadanitic inscriptions and dated to the 6th century BC, before Nabonidus' conquest of 553/552 BC.
Mesha
Mesha was a ninth-century BC king of Moab who drove out Israelite occupation and recorded his reign on the Mesha Stele, also called the Moabite Stone.
Mitinti (king of Ashdod)
Mitinti, also spelled Mittinti, was king of Ashdod, a Philistine city-state in the southern Levant, named in Sennacherib's annals of the 701 BC campaign, after which Ashdod kept its king and gained Judahite territory.
Mitinti (king of Ashkelon)
Mitinti, also Mitinti I, was king of Ashkelon, a Philistine city-state, who rebelled against and then paid tribute to Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria in the 730s BC.
Mitinti II
Mitinti II was a king of Ashkelon in the first half of the 7th century BC, a loyal vassal of Esarhaddon known from Assyrian inscriptions.
Nahash (Ammonite king)
Nahash, also known as Nahash the Ammonite, was a king of the Ammonites in the Hebrew Bible who besieged Jabesh-Gilead and was defeated by Saul.
Natnu of the Nabayate
Natnu was the leader of the Nabayat, an Arab tribe known from Assyrian records, during Ashurbanipal's reign in the 650s BC; his son Nuhuru succeeded him.
Obodas I
Obodas I (Arabic: Ubaydah) was a Nabataean king of the early 1st century BC who defeated the Hasmonean Alexander Jannaeus and, at Cana, killed Antiochus XII.
Obodas II
Obodas II was, under the traditional chronology, a king of the Nabataeans who reigned briefly around 62 to 59 BC, between Aretas III and Malichus I.
Obodas III
Obodas III was king of the Nabataeans from about 30 BC to 9 BC, known for deflecting Roman expansion through his minister Syllaeus and for later worship as Zeus-Obodas.
Padi (king of Ekron)
Padi was king of Ekron, a Philistine city-kingdom and Assyrian vassal, deposed and handed to Hezekiah of Judah, then restored by Sennacherib in 701 BCE.
Pado'el
Pado'el, also known as Padael or Pudu'ilu, was a king of Ammon in the Transjordan, a loyal Assyrian vassal who paid tribute in 701 and 676 BC.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a 1st-century Nabataean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV and Queen Huldu, and the first wife of Herod Antipas, whose repudiation for Herodias provoked a war with Nabataea.
Qaus-gabri
Qaus-gabri, also known as Kaus-gabri or Qos-gabr, was king of Edom in the seventh century BC, a loyal vassal of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal attested in their inscriptions.
Qausmalaka (king of Edom)
Qausmalaka, also rendered Kausmalaka or Qosmalaka, was a king of Edom who appears in the tribute lists of Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria around 745 BC.
Qos-gabri (king of Edom)
Qos-gabri, also written Qaus-gabri, was a king of Edom in the 7th century BC, an Assyrian vassal known from cuneiform inscriptions and a clay bulla from Petra.
Rabbel I
Rabbel I, also printed Rabel I or ar-Rabil I, was a poorly attested king of the Nabataeans who reigned briefly around 90–87 BC, between Obodas I and Aretas III.
Rabbel II
Rabbel II Soter was the last king of the Nabataeans, reigning from 70 to 106 CE; after his death, Trajan annexed the kingdom as the Roman province of Arabia.
Rukibtu
Rukibtu, also spelled Rukibti, was a king of Ashkelon in the late eighth century BC, installed by Assyria after the deposition of Mitinti, and father of Sharru-lu-dari.
Salmanu (king of Moab)
Salmanu, also read Salamanu, was a king of Moab in the late eighth century BC, named in the inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III as a ruler who paid tribute to Assyria.
Samlah of Masrekah
Samlah of Masrekah is a king of Edom known only from the list of Edomite kings in Genesis 36:36, where he succeeds Hadad and is succeeded by Shaul of Rehoboth.
Samsi (queen of Qedar)
Samsi, also rendered Samsie, was an Arab queen defeated by the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III around 733 BCE and the only Queen of the Arabs recorded by two Assyrian kings.
Shanipu
Shanipu, also rendered Sanipu, was king of Ammon, a kingdom on the Transjordanian plateau east of the Jordan River, who paid tribute to the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III in 734 BC.
Shaqilath
Shaqilath, also spelled Shaqilat, was a queen of the Nabataeans who married King Aretas IV around 16/17 AD and co-issued coins with him at Petra.
Shaqilath II
Shaqilath II, also spelled Shuqilat, was a queen of the Nabataeans, wife of King Malichus II and regent for her infant son Rabbel II between AD 70/71 and 75/76.
Sharru-lu-dari
Sharru-lu-dari, also known as Šarru-lū-dāri, meaning "May the king be everlasting", was a king of Ashkelon, son of Rukibtu, installed by Sennacherib after the Assyrian campaign of 701 BC.
Sidqa (king of Ashkelon)
Sidqa, also written Ṣidqia or Sidqia, was a Philistine king of Ashkelon who joined the anti-Assyrian coalition of 701 BC and was deported to Assyria by Sennacherib.