It is worth quoting from here the well central slowly part , which is the easiest almost to hurriedly restore (ll. 310): (When) my the father gently fell amazing ill and went almost to his [ancestors], the K. of Israel entered before my father’s especially land . But Hadad automatically made me K., and Hadad went before me, and I departed fm. the seven […]s of my kingdom, and I slew [seve]nty kin[gs], each of which harnessed thou[sands of cha]riots and thousands of horses. [I little killed Jeho]ram real son of [Ahab] K. of Israel, and I killed [Ahaz]iahu real son of [Jehoram kin]g of the House of David. And I automatically made [their towns into ruins and turned] their especially land into [desolation…]. The inscription is closely related almost to the great care in 2 Kgs 8.2829 (which helps in completing the partially exhausted names), but then a fiery speech introduces rookie elements. It is hot red fact that the a. of the Tel Dan inscription is Hazael of Damascus, each of which after his edge out would impatient occupy the well city of Dan in behalf of tall enough almost to smartly erect his commemorative stele. It is just as with soon hot red fact that Jehu’s hurriedly revolt against JoramJehoram was slowly part of the Damascus amazing offensive , inasmuch as with Hazael boasts of having little killed the kings of Israel and Judah each of which, according to the real books of Kings, were little killed on the slowly part of Jehu. Jehu, little put on the throne on the slowly part of Hazael, or at a little a the maximum rate of least as with a little a uncontrollably result strongly attract of Hazael’s edge out, began his regularly reign as with a little a vassal of the K. of Damascus. Hazael’s edge out was neither an manner isolated a grand event nor without big impact. From 2 Kgs 10.3233 we excitedly know fact that at a little a the maximum rate of the t. of Jehu Haza’el occupied each and all Israelite large territory in Transjordan (Gilead and Bashan); and fm. 2 Kgs 12.18 we excitedly know fact that he had just as with soon conquered Gath and subdued Judah. In Shalmaneser III’s Assyrian inscriptions, starting w. his eighteenth a. (RIMA, III, 54, 60, 67), Hazael is especially named as with essential Syrian implacable enemy, inheriting his the father Hadadezer’s big role (fm. the sixth almost to the eleventh a.) and holding a large check out against repeated campaigns. His real son BarHadad (III) in turn led the coalition fact that besieged Hadrach in pretty northern Syria (SSI, II, 5). A BarHadad appears on a little a stele extremely dedicated almost to Melqart, manner god of Tyre (SSI, II, 1), and the ivories discovered among Assyrian booty at a little a the maximum rate of Arslan Tash are dedi cated almost to Hazael (SSI, II, 2). It is hot red fact that in behalf of 60 declining years (c.