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Ishtob

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: I By: George A. Morrish

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A state which supplied 12,000 men to the children of Ammon to fight against David (2 Sam. 10:6,8⁶And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men. (2 Samuel 10:6)
⁸And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish-tob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. (2 Samuel 10:8)). In the margin it reads “men of Tob.” It was to “the land of Tob” that Jephthah fled from his brethren (Judg. 11:3,5³Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him. (Judges 11:3)
⁵And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: (Judges 11:5)). It is supposed to be on the east of Jebel Hauran.

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Concise Bible Dictionary: I

• Isaiah, Book of

• Ish-bosheth

• Ishbi-benob

• Ishmaelites, Ishmeelites

• Ishtob

• Ishuah, Isuah

• Ishuai, Isui, Jesui

• Islands, Isles