Baal-hanan
Baal-hanan (Hebrew: בַּעַל חָנָן / בָּעַל חָנָן, Standard Baʿal Ḥanan Tiberian Baʿal Ḥānān / Bāʿal Ḥānān) means "Baal has been gracious".<ref name="HalloYounger2000">Template:Cite book</ref> There are two men by this name in the Hebrew Bible.
In Template:Bibleverse, Baal-hanan is a King of Edom. He is also mentioned in the King List in Template:Bibleverse. He succeeded Shaul and was himself succeeded by Hadad. He was the son of Achbor.
He is called the son of Achbor; but the name of his native city is not given. For this and other reasons, Marqaurt supposes that "son of Achbor" is a duplicate of "son of Beor" (Gen. 36:32), and that "Baal-hanan" in the original text is given as the name of the father of the next king, Hadar.<ref>Josef Markwart (Joseph Marquart), Fundamente Israelitischer und Jüdischer Gesch. 1896, pp. 10 et seq.</ref>
The date and even historicity<ref name="Cook2016">Template:Cite book</ref> of his reign are unknown, as he is not mentioned in any other surviving source.
In the Books of Chronicles there is also a second man by this name, from the city of Geder. In Template:Bibleverse he is described as being responsible to King David for the care of olive and sycamore trees.
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