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arioch

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proper noun

  1. The King of Ellasar, who participated in the Battle of the Vale of Siddim, described in Genesis.
  2. The person who was, according to the Torah, appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to put to death the wise men of Babylon.

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Humiliated and abased, he returned to his country, and he was forced to acknowledge the suzerainty of Chedorlaomer, who now proceeded to form an alliance with Arioch king of Ellasar, and Tidal, the king of several nations, the purpose of which was to crush the cities of the circle of the Jordan.
Louis GinzbergThe Legends of the Jews — Volume 1Translated by Henrietta SzoldProject Gutenberg ebook #1493