Hadrach

Hadrach ({{langx|he|חַדְרָךְ}}) is a Biblical name, denoting a place, a king or a deity revered on the boundaries of Damascus. It is only mentioned once in the Bible, at Zechariah 9:1.Perowne, T. T. (1890), [https://biblehub.com/commentaries/cambridge/zechariah/9.htm Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges] on Zechariah 9, accessed on 21 January 2025 It is generally thought to have been situated north of Lebanon.The Illustrated Bible Dictionary page 598 {{ISBN|978-0-8308-1460-2}}

Writing in 1890, T. T. Perowne states that until "recently", Hadrach had caused{{quote|much perplexity to commentators. Some of them explained it to be the name of a king, others of an idol, while others regarded it as a symbolical name composed by the prophet. The question, however, as to the meaning of the word appears to have been satisfactorily set at rest, by its being discovered in the Assyrian inscriptions "in the catalogue of Syrian cities tributary to Nineveh". Sir H. Rawlinson, quoted by Pusey, says, "It is now certain that there was a city called Hadrach in the neighbourhood of Damascus and Hamath, although its exact site is not known … In the Assyrian Canon[,] Hadrach is the object of three Assyrian expeditions."}} According to George L. Klein,{{cite book |last=Klein |first=George A. |date=2008 |title=Zechariah |series=The New American Commentary |volume=21B |page=260}} Hadrach has been identified with the Assyrian place-name Hatarikka,{{cite book |editor-last=Pritchard |editor-first=James B. |title=Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament |editor-link=James B. Pritchard |title-link=Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament |pages=282–283}} or Aramean Hazrik, (the capital of Luhuti) possibly located at Tell Afis.