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Barga
Barga was a land or polity of northern Syria in the 14th century BC, known from the Amarna letters and Hittite texts of Muršili II's reign.
Baruch (son of Neriah)
Baruch ben Neriah was the scribe and disciple of the prophet Jeremiah, writing his oracles at dictation and reading them publicly in the Temple around 605 BC.
Battle of Beth-Shemesh
The Battle of Beth-Shemesh was a battle around 800–785 BC in which Jehoash of Israel defeated and captured Amaziah of Judah at Beth-shemesh, a Judahite town.
Battle of Cana
The Battle of Cana was a battle around the 80s BC in which the Nabataeans defeated and killed the Seleucid king Antiochus XII Dionysus; his fleeing army starved at Cana.
Battle of Gadara
The Battle of Gadara was a defeat inflicted around 93 BC by the Nabataean king Obodas I on the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus, ending his first Transjordanian conquests.
Battle of Lutibu
The Battle of Lutibu was a battle fought in 858 BC at Lutibu, where Shalmaneser III of Assyria claimed victory over a coalition of Syro-Hittite and Aramean rulers.
Battle of Mount Gilboa
The Battle of Mount Gilboa, or Battle of Gilboa, was a Philistine victory over Israel on Mount Gilboa, in which King Saul and three of his sons died.
Battle of Mount Zemaraim
The Battle of Mount Zemaraim was a battle reported in 2 Chronicles 13 in which Abijah, king of Judah, defeated Jeroboam I of Israel, capturing Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron.
Battle of Ramoth-gilead
The Battle of Ramoth-gilead, fought around 842/841 BC, was a defeat of Israel and Judah by Aram-Damascus in which King Joram of Israel was wounded.
Battle of the Wood of Ephraim
The Battle of the Wood of Ephraim is the battle reported in 2 Samuel 18 in which David's forces defeated the army of his son Absalom, ending his revolt.
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.
Ben-Hadad I
Ben-Hadad I, also Bir-Hadad or Bar-Hadad, was a king of Aram-Damascus in the early ninth century BC, son of Tabrimmon and contemporary of Asa of Judah.
Ben-Hadad II
Ben-Hadad II, also known as Bar-Hadad II, was a ninth-century BC king of Aram-Damascus who fought Ahab of Israel, led a coalition against Assyria at Qarqar in 853 BC, and was murdered by Hazael.
Ben-Hadad III
Ben-Hadad III, also called Bar-Hadad, was a king of Aram-Damascus from around 800 BC, the son and successor of Hazael, known from the Bible and Assyrian inscriptions.
Benaiah
Benaiah son of Jehoiada (Hebrew Benayahu) was a warrior from Kabzeel in Judah who commanded David's bodyguard and became commander-in-chief of the army under Solomon.
Beth Shean stelae
The Beth Shean stelae are Egyptian victory stelae of Seti I and Ramesses II, set up at Beth Shean in the Jordan Valley in the early 13th century BCE.
Biridašwa
Biridašwa, also spelled Biridashwa or Biridaswa, was a ruler of a Canaanite city-state who appears in the Amarna letters, the diplomatic archive of Akhenaten's reign in the 14th century BC.
Biridiya
Biridiya, also Biridija, was the Canaanite mayor of Megiddo under Egyptian overlordship in the mid-14th century BCE, known for eight Amarna letters pleading for troops against the hostile ruler Labaya.
Biryawaza
Biryawaza, also known as Birjawaza, was a dignitary of the mid-14th century BC Amarna age who served as an agent of Egyptian rule in Syria-Palestine and is linked with Damascus.
Bit Adini
Bit Adini (Bīt-Adini), known in the Hebrew Bible as Beth-Eden, was an Aramean kingdom on the middle Euphrates with its capital at Til Barsip, conquered by Assyria in 856 BC.
Bit Agusi
Bit Agusi, also written Bit Agushi, was an Aramean kingdom in northern Syria with its capital at Arpad (modern Tell Rifa'at), annexed by Assyria in 740 BCE.
Bit Bahiani
Bit Bahiani was an Aramean principality on the Habur river in northeastern Syria, centered on Guzana, modern Tell Halaf, attested from 894 BC and annexed by Assyria in the early eighth century BC.
Bit-Halupe
Bit-Halupe (بيت خلوبي), also written Bit-Ḫalupe and Bet-Halupe, was a small Aramean emirate on the middle Euphrates with its capital at Suru, annexed by Assyria under Tiglath-pileser III.
Bit-Zamani
Bit-Zamani, also written Bet-Zamani, was an Aramean kingdom of the upper Tigris valley centered on Amida, best known from Neo-Assyrian records and later absorbed into the Assyrian province of Amēdu.
Boybeypınarı inscription
The Boybeypınarı inscription is a set of four Hieroglyphic Luwian basalt blocks from Adıyaman Province, Turkey, dedicated to the goddess Kubaba by Panamuwati, wife of the Kummuh king Suppiluliuma.
Bulla of Baruch son of Neriah
The bulla of Baruch son of Neriah is an unprovenanced clay seal impression naming Berekhyahu son of Neriyahu, the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah, dated to about 586 BC.
Bulla of Hezekiah
The Bulla of Hezekiah is a clay seal impression reading "Belonging to Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah", found in Jerusalem's Ophel in 2015.
Byblos syllabary
The Byblos syllabary, also called the Byblos script or pseudo-hieroglyphic script of Byblos, is an undeciphered writing system known only from Byblos in Lebanon, discovered in 1929 and probably mainly syllabic.
Campaign of Sargon II against Philistia and Judah
The campaign of Sargon II against Philistia and Judah, in 720 BC, defeated Hanunu of Gaza and his Egyptian allies at Raphia, restoring Assyrian control of the Philistine coast.
Campaign of Sennacherib against the Arab tribes
Sennacherib's campaign against the Arab tribes, about 690 BC, was an Assyrian expedition deep into northern Arabia that captured the Qedarite stronghold Adummatu, modern Dumat al-Jandal.