Rezon

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Rezon: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

son of Eliada; fugitive from Hadadezer king of Zobah

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lean; small; secret; prince

Hebrew

Strongs #07331: Nwzr R@zown

Rezon = "prince"

1) son of Eliadah, a Syrian, who lead a band of freebooters and
established a petty kingdom at Damascus in the time of David and
Solomon

7331 Rzown rez-one'

from 7336; prince; Rezon, a Syrian:-Rezon.
see HEBREW for 07336

Rezon [EBD]

prince, son of Eliadah. Abandoning the service of Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, on the occasion of his being defeated by David, he became the "captain over a band" of marauders, and took Damascus, and became king of Syria (1 Kings 11:23-25; 2 Sam. 8:3-8). For centuries after this the Syrians were the foes of Israel. He "became an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon."

Rezon [NAVE]

REZON, king of Damascus. An adversary of Solomon, 1 Kin. 11:23-25.

REZON [SMITH]

(prince), son of Eliadah, a Syrian, who when David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, put himself at the head of a band of freebooters and set up a petty kingdom at Damascus. (1 Kings 11:23) He harassed the kingdom of Solomon during his whole reign. (B.C. 1043-975.)

REZON [ISBE]

REZON - re'-zon (rezon; Rhazon): Son of Eliadah, and a subject of Hadadezer, king of Zobah (1 Ki 11:23). The name appears to be given as chezyon; Hazein (1 Ki 15:18; see HEZION), where he is the father of Tabrimmon, whose son Ben-hadad I is known through his leaaue with Asa, king of Judah. When David conquered Zobah, Rezon renounced his allegiance to Hadadezer and became powerful as an independent chief, capturing Damascus and setting up as king. Along with Hadad, the noted Edomite patriot, he became a thorn in the side of Solomon, the one making himself obnoxious in the South, the other in the North, of the kingdom of Israel, both being animated with a bitter hatred of the common foe. It is said of Rezon that he "reigned over Syria" (1 Ki 11:25), and if the surmise adopted by many scholars is correct that he is the same as Hezion (1 Ki 15:18), then he was really the founder of the dynasty of Syrian kings so well known in the history of this period of Israel; and the line would run: Rezon, Tabrimmon, Ben-hadad I, and Ben-hadad II.

LITERATURE.

Burney on 1 Ki 11:23 and 15:18 in Notes on Hebrew Text of Books of Kings; Winckler, Alttest. Untersuchunaen, 60 ff.

T. Nicol.