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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Hadrach
A region in Syria between Hamath and Damascus, first on the list in Zechariah 9:1. The Zakkur Stele, an eighth-century BC inscription, names a capital called Hazrach that is almost certainly the same place.
A region in Syria between Hamath and Damascus, first on the list in Zechariah 9:1. The Zakkur Stele, an eighth-century BC inscription, names a capital called Hazrach that is almost certainly the same place.
Hadrach was not a person but a region in Syria, named as the opening target of a prophetic oracle in Zechariah 9:1, which continues on to name Damascus, Hamath, Tyre, and Sidon in the same sweep. The Aramaic Zakkur Stele, an eighth-century BC inscription of King Zakkur of Hamath and Luash found in northern Syria, names his capital city Hazrach, almost certainly the same place, and describes it withstanding a siege by a coalition of Aramean kings, giving real archaeological corroboration to the place name. Its exact borders are no longer certain, but it lay in the region between Hamath and Damascus.
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- Zechariah 9:1
