Mutbaal (Akk. "man of Baal") was a Canaanite king of the Amarna Period. He is identified in the Amarna letters as a son of Labaya, the ruler of the hill country north of Jerusalem, including the territory in the vicinity of the city of Shachmu (biblical Shechem).
Mutbaal may be the son whose association with the Habiru raiders Labaya denounced in EA 254. He ruled in Pella on the eastern side of the Jordan River. After his father's death at the hands of the citizens of Gina, Mutbaal and his brother continued their assaults on other Canaanite rulers and their holdings, employing Habiru mercenaries. Eventually Biryawaza of Damascus was ordered by the Egyptian court to take armed action against the sons of Labaya. (EA 250)
Mutbaal (Akk. "man of Baal") was a Canaanite king of the Amarna Period. He is identified in the Amarna letters as a son of Labaya, the ruler of the hill...
history, and instead identify Labaya with Saul, and Mutbaal with Saul's son Ishbaal. Ish-baal and Mutbaal, whose names have the same meaning, "Man of Baal"...
Labaya's son: Mutbaal of the city, Pihilu, modern Pella, Jordan. The letter is EA 256, title: "Oaths and denials", (the oaths and denials by Mutbaal). See: "Tenuous...
letters by size List of inscriptions in biblical archaeology Mari tablets Mutbaal Šuwardata Ugaritic texts Shlomo Izre'el. "The Amarna Tablets". Tel Aviv...
called Dimasqu in the letters' Akkadian. EA 256 is a story concerning Mutbaal, the son of Labaya, and the Habiru, in regard to the whereabouts of Ayyab...
(author) Šub-Andu EA's 301–306, (author) (Pihilu) Pella, Jordan Mut-Bahli Mutbaal no 1—EA 255, l. 3 no 2—EA 256, l. 2, 5 (author) Qatna Akizzi EA 52-57 (author)...
segue to the reverse's text, and the story. Letter EA 256 is authored by Mutbaal, the son of Labaya, and written to the Pharaoh. EA 252,[dubious – discuss]...
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