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Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them.
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Verse 47. Soba, in the north. Menochius.—Rohab was the capital of another part of Cœlosyria. 1 Chronicles 18:3. 2 Kennicott. 10:6.—Overcame. We are not to judge of the virtue of a man from his success in the world. Calmet.—Under the reign of Saul, the tribe of Ruben overcame the Agarites. 1 Chronicles 5:10, 18. Salien, A. 2965.
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