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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Hadadezer
     Hadad is help; called also Hadarezer, Adod is his help, the king
     of Zobah. Hanun, the king of the Ammonites, hired among others
     the army of Hadadezer to assist him in his war against David.
     Joab, who was sent against this confederate host, found them in
     double battle array, the Ammonities toward their capital of


     Rabbah, and the Syrian mercenaries near Medeba. In the battle
     which was fought the Syrians were scattered, and the Ammonites
     in alarm fled into their capital. After this Hadadezer went
     north "to recover his border" (2 Sam. 8:3, A.V.); but rather, as
     the Revised Version renders, "to recover his dominion", i.e., to
     recruit his forces. Then followed another battle with the Syrian
     army thus recruited, which resulted in its being totally routed
     at Helam (2 Sam. 10:17). Shobach, the leader of the Syrian army,
     died on the field of battle. The Syrians of Damascus, who had
     come to help Hadadezer, were also routed, and Damascus was made
     tributary to David. All the spoils taken in this war, "shields
     of gold" and "very much brass," from which afterwards the
     "brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass" for the
     temple were made (1 Chr. 18:8), were brought to Jerusalem and
     dedicated to Jehovah. Thus the power of the Ammonites and the
     Syrians was finally broken, and David's empire extended to the
     Euphrates (2 Sam. 10:15-19; 1 Chr. 19:15-19).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Hadadezer, beauty of assistance
  

















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