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Land of Tob

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At Judges 11:3 Jephthah flees from his brothers and lives in the land of Tob, and outlaws join up with him; at 11:5, when the children of Ammon make war against Israel, the elders of Gilead go to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.

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JDG 11:1–3, engwebp
¹Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.
²Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”
³Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.
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JDG 11:4–11, engwebp
⁴After a while, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
⁵When the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
⁶They said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.”
⁷Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”
⁸The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
⁹Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivers them before me, will I be your head?”
¹⁰The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”
¹¹Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD in Mizpah.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Tob” by name and 2 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Et Tayibeh (confidence 651 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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Et Tayibeh
OpenBible.info confidence 651 of 1000 (current scholarship)
32.56333, 36.24389
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Tob” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (2) — Jephthah, the son of a prostitute, is driven out and lives in the land of Tob, The elders of Gilead bring Jephthah back, and the people make him head and chief

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Entry: Land of Tob (place-land-of-tob)
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Current wording: At Judges 11:3 Jephthah flees from his brothers and lives in the land of Tob, and outlaws join up with him; at 11:5, when the children of Ammon make war against Israel, the elders of Gilead go to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob.
Cited evidence: JDG 11:1–3, engwebp / JDG 11:4–11, engwebp
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