Hazael (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)

Hazael was a Syrian official whom the prophet Elijah was told to anoint as the next king of Aram, and Elijah wept when he predicted the atrocities Hazael would commit against Israel. Hazael smothered his own king to death to take the throne and spent decades afterward as one of Israel's most destructive enemies, and an inscription bearing his name has been found at his own capital, Damascus, independently confirming his reign.