Bible Location
Meaning: good; goodness · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Tob was the eastern district to which Jephthah fled before being called back to lead. It is important because it becomes the setting of his exile, hardening, and eventual return. First appears in Judg 11:3.1
AI summary: Tob matters because marginal places can become formation-spaces for future leaders. Jephthah's time there precedes his return to Gilead and the tragic complexity of his judgeship. The cross references present Tob as an eastern land of exile, gathering, and reluctant restoration.1
A district on the east of Jodan, about 13 miles south-east of the Sea of Galilee, to which Jephthah fled from his brethren (Judg. 11:3, 5). It was on the northern boundary of Perea, between Syria and the land of Ammon (2 Sam. 10:6, 8). Its modern name is Taiyibeh. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.