King James Bible Dictionary

See Zobah
Zobah

(station), the name of a portion of Syria which formed a separate kingdom in the time of the Jewish monarchs Saul, David and Solomon. It probably was eastward of Coele-Syria, and extended thence northeast and east toward, if not even to, the Euphrates. We first hear of Zobah in the time of Saul, when we find it mentioned as a separate country, governed apparently by a number of kings who owned no common head or chief. (1 Samuel 14:47) Some forty years later than this we find Zobah under a single ruler Hadadezer son of Rehob. He had wars with Toi king of Hamath, (2 Samuel 8:10) and held various petty Syrian princes as vassals under his yoke. (2 Samuel 10:19) David, (2 Samuel 8:3) attacked Hadadezer in the early part of his reign, defeated his army, and took from him a thousand chariots, seven hundred (seven thousand,) (1 Chronicles 18:4) horsemen and 20,000 footmen. Hadadezer's allies, the Syrians of Damascus, were defeated in a great battle. The wealth of Zobah is very apparent in the narrative of this campaign. A man of Zobah, Rezon son of Eliadah, made himself master of Damascus where he proved a fierce adversary to Isr'l all through the reign of Solomon. (1 Kings 11:23-25) Solomon also was, it would seem engaged in a war with Zobah itself. (2 Chronicles 8:3) This is the last that we hear of Zobah in Scripture. The name however, is found at a later date in the inscriptions of Assyria, where the kingdom of Zobah seems to intervene between Hamath and Damascus.

=Aram-Zobah, (Psalms 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 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel 8:3; 10:6).

Zobebah, an army; warring

Called also Zoba, Aramzobah, and Hamath-Zobah.

A kingdom in the north of Palestine
1 Samuel 14:47

Conquest of, by David
2 Samuel 8:3-8; 2 Samuel 8:12; 1 Kings 11:23-24; 1 Chronicles 18:2-9

Its inhabitants mercenaries of the Ammonites against David
2 Samuel 10:6-19; 1 Chronicles 19:6-19

David writes a psalm after the conquest of
Psalms 60:1-12

Invaded by Solomon
2 Chronicles 8:3