Bible Person
Male · 4 cross references
This Baal-hanan entry refers to the Edomite king who succeeds Shaul in the royal list of Genesis and Chronicles, not the servant of David mentioned elsewhere. He belongs to the sequence of pre-Israelite or non-Israelite rulers preserved around Edom. First appears in Gen 36:38.1
AI summary: This Baal-hanan matters because the cross references place him within the remembered succession of Edomite kings before Israel's monarchy is fully in view. His brief appearance contributes to the Bible's awareness that neighboring nations also possessed established political structures and dynastic memory. That context sharpens Israel's place among the nations. Taken together, the material presents this Baal-hanan as an Edomite king whose name helps preserve the political history of a neighboring people.1
Central Figure
Baal-hanan
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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.