Bible Person
Meaning: lean; small; secret; prince · Male · 1 cross reference
Rezon is the adversary who becomes ruler in Damascus in 1 Kings 11:23. He belongs to the network of external threats that arise during Solomon's later years. First appears in 1 Kgs 11:23.1
AI summary: Rezon matters because his single cross reference shows that Solomon's reign, despite its splendor, is not free from God-permitted opposition. The entry helps mark the emergence of long-term geopolitical trouble from Syria. Taken together, the material presents Rezon as a foreign adversary in the later Solomonic period.1
Central Figure
Rezon
Meaning: lean; small; secret; prince
Prince, son of Eliadah.
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.” 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.