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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Ethbaal (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
King of Sidon and Jezebel's father. Her marriage to Ahab brought Baal worship into the northern kingdom. Josephus, using Menander of Ephesus, makes him Ithobalus, a priest of Astarte who murdered King Pheles and took the throne.
King of Sidon and Jezebel's father. Her marriage to Ahab brought Baal worship into the northern kingdom. Josephus, using Menander of Ephesus, makes him Ithobalus, a priest of Astarte who murdered King Pheles and took the throne.
King of Sidon and father of Jezebel, whose marriage to Ahab of Israel sealed a political alliance that brought Baal worship into the northern kingdom (1 Kings 16:31). Josephus, drawing on the Tyrian historian Menander of Ephesus, identifies him with Ithobalus, a priest of Astarte who seized the throne of Tyre and Sidon after murdering King Pheles and reigned there for over three decades in the early ninth century BC. This Tyrian king list preserved through Josephus is one of the few extrabiblical anchors for the chronology of Phoenician kings in this period.
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- 1 Kings 16:31
