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Nob

Where Nob sits on the map, and the 7 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.

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Identified with
Ras el Mesharif
Coordinates
31.7925, 35.2442
Mentions
7 mentions

Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.

Passages where it appears

7 verses, in biblical order.

1 Samuel

  • 1 Samuel 21:1

    Then David went into Nob, to the priest Ahimelech. And Ahimelech was astonished that David had arrived. And he said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one is with you?”

  • 1 Samuel 22:9

    Then Doeg, the Edomite, who was standing near, and who was first among the servants of Saul, responding, said: “I saw the son of Jesse, in Nob, with Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, the priest.

  • 1 Samuel 22:11

    Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech, the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all of his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob, and they all came before the king.

  • 1 Samuel 22:19

    Then he struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword; he struck down men and women, little ones and infants, as well as ox and donkey and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

2 Samuel

  • 2 Samuel 21:16

    Ishbibenob, who was of the ancestry of Arapha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hundred ounces, who had been girded with a new sword, strove to strike down David.

Nehemiah

Isaiah

  • Isaiah 10:32

    It is still daylight, so stand at Nob. He will shake his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

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