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Zobah

Also known as Aram-zobah, Zobah-Hamath

Named in 11 verses across 4 books, first in 1 Samuel 14:47.

In the Bible

The first 10 of 11 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

1 Samuel

  • 1 Samuel 14:47

    After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.

2 Samuel

  • 2 Samuel 8:3

    David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.

  • 2 Samuel 8:5

    When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.

  • 2 Samuel 8:12

    from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • 2 Samuel 10:6

    When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.

  • 2 Samuel 10:8

    The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.

  • 2 Samuel 23:36

    Igal son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

1 Kings

  • 1 Kings 11:23

    And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,

1 Chronicles

  • 1 Chronicles 18:5

    When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.

  • 1 Chronicles 18:9

    When King Tou of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer king of Zobah,

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

'=Aram-Zobah, ([Ps. 60](/ps#Ps.60), title), a Syrian province or kingdom to the south of Coele-Syria, and extending from the eastern slopes of Lebanon north and east toward the Euphrates. Saul and David had war with the kings of Zobah (1 Sam. 14:47; 2 Sam. 8:3; 10:6).

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