One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Baal-hanan. Every Baal-hanan in the Bible
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Genesis 36:38
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:50
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Edom
Description
Who was Baal-hanan?
Baal-hanan was one of the kings who reigned in Edom before Israel had kings. He is mentioned in the lists of Edomite kings found in Gen.36.38-39 and 1Ch.1.49-50. Baal-hanan is described as the son of Achbor, and he succeeded Shaul as king of Edom. After his death, Hadad became king in his place. The text does not provide any details about the length or events of Baal-hanan's reign. His name, which means "Baal is gracious," suggests that the Canaanite deity Baal was worshiped in Edom at that time.
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A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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