2 Samuel 8:5
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| Overview - 2 Samuel 8 | |
| 1 | David subdues the Philistines and the Moabites. |
| 3 | He smites Hadadezer, and the Syrians. |
| 9 | Toi sends Joram with presents to bless him. |
| 11 | The presents and the spoil David dedicates to God. |
| 14 | He puts garrisons in Edom. |
| 16 | David's officers. |
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2 Samuel 8:5 (King James Version)
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
- And when
- 1 Kings 11:23-25 ; 1 Chronicles 18:5 1 Chronicles 18:6 ; Isaiah 7:8
- came
- Job 9:13 ; Psalms 83:4-8 ; Isaiah 8:9 Isaiah 8:10 ; 31:3
- Zobah
- From 2 ; Ch 8:3 we learn that Zobah was the district in which Tadmor or Palymyra was situated; and consequently lay between the land of Israel and the Euphrates. The capital was probably the same as the Sabe mentioned by Ptolemy as a city of Arabia Deserta.