Gob

Town

Location disputed Tel Gezer: about 30 km (19 miles, 170 furlongs) west of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

• Tel Gezer Possible
• Tell Melat Less likely
• Khirbet Qeiyafa Less likely
• Ras Abu Hamid Less likely
• Ras el Mesharif Less likely

Gob in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 2 Verses

• 2 Samuel 21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
• 2 Samuel 21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

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