Arioch
King of Ellasar(Sellasar) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Arioch, the king's chief executioner briefly mentioned in the second chapter of the Book of Daniel.
Arioch (Hebrew: אַרְיוֹךְ, romanized: Aryoḵ) appears in Genesis 14 as the name of the King of Ellāsār (Hebrew: אֶלָּסָר) who participated in the Battle of Siddim. Led by Chedorlaomer, the four kings Amraphel, Arioch, Chedorlaomer, and Tidal engaged in a punitive expedition against five kings of Canaan who rebelled against Chedorlaomer, Bera of Sodom, Birsha of Gomorrah, Shinab of Admah, Shemeber of Zeboim, and Zoar of Bela. The same story is also mentioned in the Book of Jubilees, where Arioch is called "king of Sellasar".[2][3] According to Genesis Apocryphon (col. 21), Arioh was king of Cappadocia.