2 Samuel 8:5-8

8:5

Arameans ................. Arameans <0758> [And when.]

<0935> [came.]

Zobah <06678> [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.

8:6

garrisons <05333> [garrisons.]

subjects <05650> [became.]

Lord <03068> [the Lord.]

8:7

shields <07982> [shields.]

8:8

Tebah <0984> [Betah.]

Probably the same as Bathne in Syria, between Bero‘ea and Hierapolis.

[Tibhath, Chun. Berothai.]

Berothai is probably the Barathena of Ptolemy, which he mentions, along with Sabe, as a city of Arabia Deserta, in the confines of the Palmyrenian district.

<03966> [exceeding.]