Took the kingdom, i.e. recovered it, and resumed the administration of it, after he had in a manner lost it, partly by Samuel's sentence, 1 Samuel 13:14, and partly by the Philistines, who had almost turned him out of it. But now, being encouraged by this success, he returns to the exercise of his kingly office. Zobah lay not far from Damascus. See 2 Samuel 8:5. He vexed them, Heb. he condemned them, he treated them like wicked people, and enemies to God and his people; or, he punished them.
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1 Samuel 14:47
47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and 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: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.