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Smith's Bible Dictionary
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 Israel 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.
Zobebah
(the slow), son of Coz, of the tribe of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:8)
Zohar
(light).
•Father of Ephron the Hittite. (Genesis 23:8; 25:9) (B.C. before 1860.)
•One of the sons of Simeon (Genesis 46:10; Exodus 6:15) called Zarah, Or Zerah, Zerah in (1
Chronicles 4:24)
Zoheleth
(serpent), The stone, This was “by En-rogel,” (1 Kings 1:9) and therefore, if En-rogel be the
modern Um-ed-Deraj, this stone, “where Adonijah slew sheep and oxen,” was in all likelihood not
far from the well of the Virgin.
Zoheth
son of Ishi of the tribe of Judah. (1 Chronicles 4:20)
Zophah
(a cruse) son of Helem or Hotham the son of Heber, an Asherite. (1 Chronicles 7:35,36)
Zophai
(descended from Zuph), a Kohathite Levite, son of Elkanah and ancestor of Samuel. (2 Chronicles
6:26) (11). In ver. 35 he is called Zuph.
Zophar
(sparrow), one of the three friends of Job. (Job 2:11; 11:1; 20:1; 42:9)
Zophim
(watchers), The field of, a spot on or near the top of Pisgah, from which Balaam had his second
view of the encampment of Israel. (Numbers 23:14) The position of the field of Zophim is not
defined. Possibly it is the same place which later in the history is mentioned as Mizpah-moab.
Zorah
(hornet), a town in the allotment of the tribe of Dan, (Joshua 19:41) It is previously mentioned
ch. (Joshua 15:33) in the catalogue of Judah, among the places in the district of the Shefelah
(Authorized Version “Zoreah”), It was the residence of Manoah and the native place of Samson.
It is mentioned among the places fortified by Rehoboam. (2 Chronicles 11:10) It is perhaps identical
with the modern village of Sur’ah .
Zorathites, The
i.e. the people of Zorah, mentioned in (1 Chronicles 4:2) as descended from Shobal.
Zoreah
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