| Baal-Eser I | |
| King of Tyre | |
| Reign: | 946 – 930 BC |
| Predecessor: | Hiram I 980 – 947 BC |
| Successor: | Abdastartus (‘Abd-‘Ashtart) 929 – 921 BC |
| Dynasty: | Dynasty of Abibaal and Hiram I |
| Father: | Hiram I |
| Mother: | unknown |
| Birth Date: | 973 BC |
| Birth Place: | Tyre, presumed |
| Death Date: | 930 or 929 BC |
Baal-Eser I (Beleazarus I, Ba‘l-mazzer I) was a king of Tyre. His father, Hiram I, was a contemporary of David and Solomon, kings of Israel. The only information available about Baal-Eser I comes from the following citation of the Phoenician author Menander of Ephesus, in Josephus's Against Apion I.121:
Upon the death of Hirom, Beleazarus his son took the kingdom; he lived forty-three years, and reigned seven years: after him succeeded his son Abdastartus.
The dates for Baal-Eser are established from the dates for Hiram. The dating of Hiram and the following kings is based on the studies of J. Liver,[1] J. M. Peñuela,[2] F. M. Cross,[3] and William H. Barnes,[4] all of whom build on the inscriptional evidence of a synchronism between Baal-Eser II and Shalmaneser III in 841 BC.[5] Earlier studies that did not take this inscriptional evidence into consideration will have differing dates for the kings of Tyre.
A further overview of the chronology of Tyrian kings from Hiram I to Pygmalion, with a discussion of the importance of Dido's flight from Tyre and eventual founding of Carthage for dating these kings, is found in the Pygmalion of Tyre article.