2 Kings 10:6
And the children of Ammon seeing that they had done an injury to David, Bent and hired the Syrians of Rohob, and the Syrians of Soba, twenty thousand footmen, and of the king of Maacha a thousand men, and of Istob twelve thousand men.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Videntes autem filii Ammon quod injuriam fecissent David, miserunt, et conduxerunt mercede Syrum Rohob, et Syrum Soba, viginti millia peditum, et a rege Maacha mille viros, et ab Istob duodecim millia virorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶδαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀμμὼν ὅτι κατῃσχύνθησαν ὁ λαὸς Δαυείδ· καὶ ἀπέστειλαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀμμὼν καὶ ἐμισθώσαντο τὴν Συρίαν καὶ Ῥοώβ, εἴκοσι χιλιάδας πεζῶν, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα Ἀμαλήκ, χιλίους ἄνδρας, καὶ Εἰστώβ, δώδεκα χιλιάδας ἀνδρῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּרְאוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֔וֹן כִּ֥י נִבְאֲשׁ֖וּ בְּדָוִ֑ד וַיִּשְׁלְח֣וּ בְנֵֽי עַמּ֡וֹן וַיִּשְׂכְּרוּ֩ אֶת אֲרַ֨ם בֵּית רְח֜וֹב וְאֶת אֲרַ֣ם צוֹבָ֗א עֶשְׂרִ֥ים אֶ֨לֶף֙ רַגְלִ֔י וְאֶת מֶ֤לֶךְ מַֽעֲכָה֙ אֶ֣לֶף אִ֔ישׁ וְאִ֣ישׁ ט֔וֹב שְׁנֵים עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֖לֶף אִֽישׁ
Haydock's commentary
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)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.