Bible Location
Meaning: the earth; the world; confusion · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Tubal is a northern people or region often mentioned with Meshech in prophetic texts. It is important because it represents distant trading nations and later the hostile northern coalition envisioned in Ezekiel. First appears in Isa 66:19.1
AI summary: Tubal functions much like Meshech as a name from the far northern world beyond Israel's ordinary political sphere. In Ezekiel it is tied first to trade and then to the great threatening alliance gathered against God's people, while Isaiah includes it among distant nations that will hear of God's glory. That range gives Tubal both geographic and eschatological significance. The cross references present Tubal as a remote northern people whose name carries commercial, prophetic, and apocalyptic weight.1
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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.