Editing Jehu (section)

=== Tel Dan Stele ===
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The author of the [[Tel Dan Stele]] (9th century BCE, found in 1993 and 1994) claimed to have slain both [[Ahaziah of Judah]] and [[Jehoram of Israel]]. Most scholars identify Hazael of Damascus (c. 842 – 806 BCE) as the author, the Damascan king who fought a great war against Israel and Juda. Apparently the coalition that had been forged between Ahab and [[Hadadezer]], who had provided the main force that stopped the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III at the [[Battle of Qarqar]], had fallen apart under their successors and in the succeeding war between Israel-Juda against Aram-Damascus the kings of Israel and Juda were killed. Jehu, already an important military leader, then became king after this event.