1. 2Sa 8:3,12. Josephus (Ant. 7:5, section 1) calls him Araos, and makes Rehob mean "charioteer." A Syrian name. (See BETHREHOB.) (2Sa 10:6,8).
2. Ne 10:11.
David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.