e son of
_Eliadah_ fled from his lord _Hadad-Ezer_, and gathered men unto him and
became Captain over a band, and Reigned in _Damascus_, over _Syria__: he is
called _Hezion_, 1 _King._ xv. 18. and his successors mentioned in history
were _Tabrimon_, _Hadad_ or _Ben-hadad_, _Benhadad_ II. _Hazael_,
_Benhadad_ III. * * and _Rezin_ the son of _Tabeah_. _Syria_ became subject
to _Egypt_ in the days of _Tabrimon_, and recovered her liberty under
_Benhadad_ I; and in the days of _Benhadad_ III, until the reign of the
last _Rezin_, they became subject to _Israel_: and in the ninth year of
_Hoshea_ King of _Judah_, _Tiglath-pileser_ King of _Assyria_ captivated
the _Syrians_, and put an end to their Kingdom: now _Josephus_ [289] tells
us, that _the _Syrians_ 'till his days worshipped both _Adar__, that is
_Hadad_ or _Benhadad_, _and his successor _Hazael_ as Gods, for their
benefactions, and for building Temples by which they adorned the city of
_Damascus_: for_, saith he, _they daily celebrate solemnities in honour of
these Kings, and boast their antiquity, not knowing that they are novel,
and lived not above eleven hundred years ago_. It seems these Kings built
sumptuous Sepulchres for themselves, and were worshipped therein. _Justin_
[290] calls the first of these two Kings _Damascus_, saying that _the city
had its name from him, and that the _Syrians_ in honour of him worshipped
his wife _Arathes_ as a Goddess, using her Sepulchre for a Temple_.

Another instance we have in the Kingdom of _Byblus_. In the [291] Reign of
_Minos_ King of _Crete_, when _Rhadamanthus_ the brother of _Minos_ carried
colonies from _Crete_ to the _Greek_ islands, and gave the islands to his
captains, he gave _Lemnos_ to _Thoas_, or _Theias_, or _Thoantes_, the
father of _Hypsipyle_, a _Cretan_ worker in metals, and by consequence a
disciple of the _Idaei Dactyli_, and perhaps a _Phoenician_: for the _Idaei
Dactyli_, and _Telchines_, and _Corybantes_ brought their Arts and Sciences
from _Phoenicia_: and [292] _Suidas_ saith, that he was descended from
_Pharnaces_ King of _Cyprus_; _Apollodorus_, [293] that he was the son of
_Sandochus_ a _Syrian_; and _Apollonius Rhodius_, [294] that __Hypsipyle_
gave _Jason_ the purple cloak which the _Graces_ made for _Bacchus_, who
gave it to his son _Thoas__, the father of _Hypsipyle_, and King of
_Lemnos_: _Thoas_ married [295] _Calycopis_, the mother of _AEneas_, and
daughter of _Otreus_ King of _Phrygia_, and