Place
Nob
The town of the priests near Jerusalem where David ate the showbread — the precedent Jesus cited — and which Saul put to the sword.
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Where it is
- Region
- Benjamin
- Kind of place
- Town
Nob in Scripture
6 verses name it — all of them- 1 Samuel 21:1Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
- 1 Samuel 22:9Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
- 1 Samuel 22:11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
- 1 Samuel 22:19And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
- Nehemiah 11:32at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
- Isaiah 10:32This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.