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Rehob
Street; broad place. (1.) The father of Hadadezer, king of Tobah (2 Sam 8:3, 2 Sam 8:12).
(2.) Neh 10:11.
(3.) The same, probably, as Beth-rehob (2 Sam 10:6, 2 Sam 10:8; Judg 18:28), a place in the north of Palestine (Num 13:21). It is now supposed to be represented by the castle of Hunin, south-west of Dan, on the road from Hamath into Coele-Syria.
(4.) A town of Asher (Josh 19:28), to the east of Zidon.
(5.) Another town of Asher (Josh 19:30), kept possession of by the Canaanites (Judg 1:31).
Named in the Bible
10 verses
- Numbers 13:21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
- Joshua 19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
- Joshua 19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
- Joshua 21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
- Judges 1:31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
- 2 Samuel 8:3 David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
- 2 Samuel 8:12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
- 2 Samuel 10:8 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 Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
- 1 Chronicles 6:75 And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:
- Nehemiah 10:11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
