General Notes

k. king Phelles of Tyre (a son of the nurse of king Abdastartus) and took the throne for himself (like father, like daughter). said to be the grandson of Hiram I

Ethbaal ('with Baal'), Ithobalus (Josephus) Priest of Baal and Astarte King of Tyre (and perhaps Sidon)

AKA: (Ithobal) (Eithobalus)  Reign from 0898 BC to 0865 Tyre Reign ABT 0875 Zidon    He was patron of the heathen cults that were so popular in ancient Palestine. His daughter Jezebel took his paganism with her when she married King Ahab, and corruped Israel. Many historians, such as Josephus, state that Ethbaal was originally a priest of Astarte who murdered to grab the throne of Tyre and Sidon. (Everyone in the Bible,by William P. Barker, 1966)   Sources:   Title: Chronology of the Old Testament Publication: http://www.internetdynamics.com/personal/spadkins/god/study/oldtest/chron.htm Note: 950s BC Contemporaries in EGYPT: 945-715 22nd Dynasty 945-924 Sheshonq I (Shishak) 924-889 Osorkon I Contemporaries in JUDAH: 931/30-913 Rehoboam 925 Sheshonq invades Palestine 913-911/10 Abijam 911/10-870/69 Asa Contemporaries in ISRAEL: 931/30-910/09 Jeroboam I 910/09-909/08 Nadab 909/08-886/85 Baasha Contemporaries in DAMASCUS and TYRE: ?955-925 Rezon ?925-915 Hezion ?915-900 Tabrimmon ?900-?860 Ben-hadad I 898/97-866/65 Ethbaal I of Tyre Contemporaries in MESOPOTAMIA: 933 Ashur-dan II.  Title: Web sites Page: CIAS Virtual Illustrated Chronology Tour of World History Note: Ethbaal's Sacrifice Like Ugarit/Ras Shamra, the island city of Tyre was another Phoenician town. Here Ithobal became to be priest-king. It was not easy to rule over an independently minded population. Ithobal succeeded in checking the advance of the Assyrians. He made an alliance with King Ahab of Israel who married his daughter Jezebel. The prolonged drought, which the Bible tells us afflicted Israel during the El Amarna age, the age of Ahab and Jezebel, was felt in Phoenicia too. King Ethbal performed a great heathen ceremony to escape the drought. He led his people in a procession about Tyre and did the terrible dead to offer little children to an idol of stone, made by human hands, under the vain expectation to receive the idols help. It was at this same time that Elijah slew the prophets of Baal in Israel after their vain efforts to try and get a mute, stone faced god to help their cause. Here we have an occasion which shows to what depths of depravity heathen beliefs will sink when they forsake the living Creator God, ruler of the universe.