And when the children of Ammon saw that they had become repulsive before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Rohob, the capital, between Libanus and Antilibanus.
Soba was subject to Adarezer, chap. viii. 3.
Maacha, at the foot of Hermon.
Istob (Hebrew ish tob) signifies, the man, or prince, or "the master of Tob "(Calmet) where Jephte lived, Judges xi. 5. (Du Hamel) (Salien)
Josephus thinks that Istob is the name of a fourth king, who, together with the king of Micha, brought 22,000 into the field. The first he styles king "of the Mesopotamians "(1 Paralipomenon xix. 6.) which Salien explains of the country between Abana and Pharphar, the two great rivers of Syria, (4 Kings v. 12,) though, on this occasion, he allows that Adarezer hired forces from the utmost parts beyond the Euphrates. (Haydock)
