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2Sa 8:5 — And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

And when		1Ki 11:23-25; 1Ch 18:5,6; Isa 7:8
came		Job 9:13; Psa 83:4-8; Isa 8:9,10; Isa 31:3
Zobah		From 2Ch 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.

Correlating Passages

And when

	1Ki 11:23	And God stirred him up [another] adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
	1Ki 11:24	And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
	1Ki 11:25	And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
	1Ch 18:5	And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
	1Ch 18:6	Then David put [garrisons] in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, [and] brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
	Isa 7:8	For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

came

	Job 9:13	[If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
	Psa 83:4	They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
	Psa 83:5	For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
	Psa 83:6	The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
	Psa 83:7	Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
	Psa 83:8	Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
	Isa 8:9	Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
	Isa 8:10	Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [is] with us.
	Isa 31:3	Now the Egyptians [are] men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

Zobah

2Ch 8:3

And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 8:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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