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Ishtob (#81965)
Ishtob
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Concise Bible Dictionary: I
By:
George A. Morrish
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
Duration:
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A state which supplied 12,000 men to the children of Ammon to fight against David (
2 Sam. 10:6,8
6
And 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)
8
And 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. 11:3,5
3
Then 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)
5
And 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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