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).
 Hadadezer, beauty of assistance