Hissalel
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Hissalel ben Amminadab was an Ammonite king of the late seventh century BCE, reigning approximately 620 BCE. He is mentioned on an inscription on a bronze
Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 situla
Situla
Situla is the Latin for bucket, and can mean* situla , a bucket-like vessel, usually of bronze in the Iron Age, and ivory in the Middle Ages* Kappa Aquarii, a star in the constellation Aquarius...

 found at Tel Siran in Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

. The inscription reads: mndb mlk bn'mn / bn hsl'l mlk bn'mn / bn'mndb mlk bn'mn "Amminadab (II)
Amminadab (Ammon)
Amminadab was the name of two kings of Ammon:# Amminadab I ruled c. 650 BCE, mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions from the reign of Assurbanipal. He was one of the rebellious client kings punished by Assurbanipal during the latter's Arabian campaign.# Amminadab ben Hissalel or Amminadab II reigned...

 son of Hassal'il son of Amminadab (I)
Amminadab (Ammon)
Amminadab was the name of two kings of Ammon:# Amminadab I ruled c. 650 BCE, mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions from the reign of Assurbanipal. He was one of the rebellious client kings punished by Assurbanipal during the latter's Arabian campaign.# Amminadab ben Hissalel or Amminadab II reigned...

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His name, which invokes the name of the god El
El (god)
is a Northwest Semitic word meaning "deity", cognate to Akkadian and then to Hebrew : Eli and Arabic )....

 (as do the names of his fellow Ammonite kings Pado'el
Pado'el
Pado'el was king of Ammon in the 720s BCE and probably the successor to Shanip. He is mentioned as a vassal of the Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon...

 and Barakel
Barakel
Barakhel or Barakel was a king of Ammon in the 670s BCE. He is known from a small black clay bulla bearing his seal impression. A groove and several dots around the impression demonstrate that the seal likely took the form of a metal ring...

 suggests that El was worshipped in Ammon alongside Milcom and other deities.
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