1 Chronicles 18:3

Hadarezer ; in the parallel places, Hadadezer ; though our present form is found both in Samuel ( e.g. 2 Samuel 10:16 ) and in other places in Chronicles, yet in all these places some manuscripts show Hadadezer (see Gesenius, 'Lexicon,' sub voce ) . Zobah . Part of Syria, east of Hamath , and for the most part of Coelo-Syria, north of Damascus, and stretching in the direction of the Euphrates. Possibly it is one with Ptolemy's Zake ( 1 Samuel 14:47 ; 2 Samuel 8:3-10 ; 2 Samuel 10:9 ; 1 Kings 11:23-25 ). Hamath . In the valley of the Orontes, the northern boundary of the Holy Land. It is traceable from the time of the Exodus ( Genesis 10:18 ; Numbers 13:21 ; Numbers 34:8 ) to that of the Prophet Amos ( Amos 6:12 ). Though in Zobah, it is probably not the Hamath-Zobah of 2 Samuel 8:3 . To stablish his dominion . In the parallel place, "to restore," i.e; no doubt, to endeavour to do so, and that against the growing force of David. He had already suffered at the hand of Saul ( 1 Samuel 14:47 , 1 Samuel 14:48 ).