At which Saul arrived from Shalisha, Shalim, and the Benjamites (1 Samuel 9:5). Containing the city where he met Samuel, not far from Rachel's tomb, a little N. of Bethlehem. Zuph was one of Samuel's ancestors (1 Samuel 1:1; 1 Chronicles 6:35). Soba is the only name like it, seven miles W. of Jerusalem, and five S.W. of neby Samwil. If Shalim and Shalisha were N.E. of Jerusalem near Taiyibeh, Saul's route to Benjamin would be S. or S.W. to Soba.