Hadadezer (; "
Hadad is my help"); also known as
Adad-Idri (
Assyr.), and possibly the same as
Bar-Hadad II (
Aram.) or
Ben-Hadad II (
Heb.), was the king of
Aram Damascus at the time of the
battle of Qarqar against the
Assyrian king
Shalmaneser III in 853 BCE. He and
Irhuleni of
Hamath led a coalition of eleven kings (listed as twelve) at Qarqar (including
Ahab of Israel and Gindibu the Arab). He fought Shalmaneser six other times, twice more with the aid of Irhuleni and possibly the rest of the coalition that fought at Qarqar.