A town or territory east of the northern Jordan River.
About Tob
A place where Jephthah went to live after his half brothers forced him to leave because he was born to a different mother (Judges 11:3–5). During the rule of King David, the Ammonites hired 12,000 men from Tob as soldiers to fight against David (2 Samuel 10:6–8).
Tob was probably the same as the Aramean kingdom called Tob, which was located in the desert to the east or northeast of Gilead. Many years later, during the time of the Maccabees, a group of Jewish people lived in Tob.
Key References
So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
All Scripture References (4)
Judges (2)
So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where worthless men gathered around him and traveled with him.
and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.
2 Samuel (2)
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.