Baalis

Ba’alis
King of Ammon
Reignc. 590s–582 BCE
PredecessorPossibly Amminadab II
SuccessorUnknown
Bornc. late 7th BCE
FatherAmminadab II (uncertain)

Baalis (Hebrew: בַּעֲלִיס, Ba‘ălīs; Ammonite: 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤔𐤏, B‘LYŠ‘) is the name given in the Book of Jeremiah for the king of Ammon. He instigated the murder of Gedaliah, the Babylonian-appointed Jewish governor of Jerusalem.

In 1984 an Ammonite seal, dated to c. 600 BCE, was excavated in Tell El-`Umeiri, Jordan that reads "belonging to Milkomor, the servant of Baalisha". Identification of 'Baalisha' with the biblical Baalis is likely,[1] but it is currently unknown if there was only one Ammonite king of that name.[2]

Sources

https://web.archive.org/web/20061022182148/http://www.robert-deutsch.com/en/monographs/m7/

References

  1. ^ Grabbe, Lester L., Can a 'History of Israel' Be Written?, Continuum International, 1997, pp. 80–82 [1]
  2. ^ Mykytiuk, Lawrence J., Identifying Biblical persons in Northwest Semitic inscriptions of 1200-539 B.C.E., Society of Biblical Literature, 2004, Baalis: p. 242 [2]; Jeroboam: p. 136 [3]
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