SOBA; Syria of Soba, or Aram of Soba. We think Soba to be a City which gave its Name to a Part of Syria. But this City having been destroy’d, or else having chang’d its Name, we cannot certainly say how far Syria of Soba extended. It appears to us, that it must have been at the Northern Extremity of Celo-Syria, from Libanus and Antilibanus as far as towards Antioch; for it is different from Syria of Damascus, of Emath, of Rohob, of Maachah, and of Geshur. Soba is call’d Sobol, or Sobal, in Judith iii. 1, 14. I suppose Soba or Sobal might be Hoba or Hobal, or Abyla, lying between Libanus and Antilibanus.
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