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Hazael's campaigns in Israel and Transjordan
Hazael's campaigns in Israel and Transjordan, also called Hazael's conquests, were the 9th-century BCE campaigns by which Hazael of Aram-Damascus reduced Israel, Judah, and Transjordan to vassalage.
Hephzibah
Hephzibah, also spelled Hepzibah, was a queen of Judah in the late 8th century BC, remembered only as the wife of King Hezekiah and the mother of King Manasseh.
Hezekiah's revolt
Hezekiah's revolt was King Hezekiah's rebellion of Judah against Assyrian rule, launched after Sargon II's death in 705 BC and crushed by Sennacherib in 701 BC.
Hezion
Hezion is a king or royal ancestor of Aram-Damascus in the late 10th century BC, known only from 1 Kings 15:18 as father of Tabrimmon.
Ḫilakku
Ḫilakku was an Iron Age Neo-Hittite land of mountainous western Cilicia, distinct from the plain of Que, first recorded in 858 BC and repeatedly resisting Assyria; its name became Greek Cilicia.
Hilkiah
Hilkiah was the high priest of Judah under King Josiah, credited with finding the book of the law in the Temple of Jerusalem around 622 BC.
Hismaic script
Hismaic, formerly called Thamudic E, is an Ancient North Arabian script and dialect of Old Arabic, carved mainly in the Ḥismā desert of southern Jordan and north-west Saudi Arabia.
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.
Hittite conquest of Ugarit
The Hittite conquest of Ugarit was the submission of the Syrian kingdom of Ugarit to Šuppiluliuma I around 1340 BC, making its king Niqmaddu II a vassal.
Hittite destruction of Qatna
The Hittite destruction of Qatna was the violent destruction of the Bronze Age Syrian kingdom's royal palace around 1340 BC by Hittite forces under Šuppiluliuma I.
Hittite sack of Ebla
The Hittite sack of Ebla was the destruction of the Syrian city of Ebla by Hittite forces around 1650 BC, ending its Old Syrian period; the perpetrator may have been Mursili I.
Hoshaiah (Judite soldier)
Hoshaiah (Hebrew Hoshayahu, also Hoshiyahu) was an officer in Judah's army stationed near Lachish, known only as the writer of several Lachish letters to his commander Yaush around 589 BC.
Hoshea
Hoshea, son of Elah, was the last king of the northern kingdom of Israel, reigning about 732–724 BC; he rebelled against Assyria, and Samaria fell, ending the kingdom.
House of Baasha
The House of Baasha was the dynasty that ruled the northern kingdom of Israel from Tirzah, founded when Baasha killed King Nadab about 909 BC.
House of Gabbar
The House of Gabbar, or Bit Gabbar, was the royal dynasty of the Iron Age kingdom of Sam'al, ruling from Zincirli from the tenth to the late eighth century BC.
House of Gadi
The House of Gadi was a short-lived dynasty of the northern kingdom of Israel, founded by Menahem son of Gadi and ended by his son Pekahiah's assassination.
House of Hazael
The House of Hazael, or Hazael dynasty, was the dynasty that ruled the Aramean kingdom of Aram-Damascus from around 842 BC into the early 8th century BC.
House of Jeroboam
The House of Jeroboam was the short-lived dynasty of the northern kingdom of Israel, founded by Jeroboam I around 931 BC and ended when Baasha exterminated his line.
House of Saul
The House of Saul was the dynasty of Saul, the first king of Israel in the Bible, which lost power to David's house in the 10th century BC.
House of Suhis
The House of Suhis, or Suhi-Katuwa dynasty, was a four-generation line of rulers of the Syro-Hittite kingdom of Carchemish in the 10th century BC, known from Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions.
Huldah
Huldah (חֻלְדָּה) was a prophetess in Jerusalem during King Josiah's reign in the late 7th century BC, whose validation of a scroll found in the Temple triggered Josiah's religious reform.
Hushai
Hushai, also spelled Chusai, was a courtier of King David called the Archite and 'the king's friend', who defeated the counsel of Ahithophel during Absalom's revolt, as told in 2 Samuel 15–17.
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.
Hyrcanus (Tobiad)
Hyrcanus, son of Joseph the Tobiad, was a Jewish magnate who ruled east of the Jordan and built the estate at 'Iraq al-Amir in modern Jordan.
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.
Ibbi-Sipish
Ibbi-Sipish, read in the Ebla tablets as Ibbi-zikir, was the vizier of Ebla under its last king, Išar-damu, in the decades before Ebla's destruction in the late third millennium BC.
Ibbit-Lim
Ibbit-Lim, also printed Yibbiṭ-Lim, was a king of Ebla in western Syria around 2000–1900 BC, known from an inscribed basalt statue found at Tell Mardikh in 1968.
Ibiranu
Ibiranu was a king of Ugarit, a Bronze Age Syrian city-state and vassal of the Hittite empire, reigning from about 1240 to 1225 BC and known from a letter of the king of Karkemish.
Ibrium
Ibrium, also read Ebrium, was the vizier of the Syrian city-state of Ebla in the 24th century BC, serving eighteen years under king Išar-Damu and passing the office to his son Ibbi-zikir.
Idanda
Idanda, also rendered Idadda, was a king of Qatna in western Syria in the mid-14th century BC, known from a tablet archive found at his palace.