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Nob

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Named at 1 Samuel 21:1: “Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest.” At 22:9 Doeg the Edomite says, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub”; at 22:11 the king sends to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and at 22:18–19 Doeg the Edomite kills on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod, and he strikes Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep.

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1SA 21:1–6, engwebp
¹Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”
²David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’
³Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
⁴The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
⁵David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
⁶So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the LORD, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
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1SA 22:6–10, engwebp
⁶Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.
⁷Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds?
⁸Is that why all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
⁹Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
¹⁰He inquired of the LORD for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
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1SA 22:11–19, engwebp
¹¹Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.
¹²Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
¹³Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”
¹⁴Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?
¹⁵Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.”
¹⁶The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”
¹⁷The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of the LORD.
¹⁸The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
¹⁹He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
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ISA 10:28–32, engwebp
²⁸He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
²⁹They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.
³⁰Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!
³¹Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
³²This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
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NEH 11:31–36, engwebp
³¹The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
³²at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
³³Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
³⁴Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
³⁵Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
³⁶Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Nob” by name and 6 shared verses. Its leading identification scores only 197 of 1000, so it is listed as a candidate and not adopted as a coordinate. 2 other identifications are listed too.

AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29

Ras el Mesharif
OpenBible.info confidence 197 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.7925, 35.24417
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Nob” (CC BY 4.0)
Ras Umm et Tala
OpenBible.info confidence 154 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.79489, 35.24263
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Nob” (CC BY 4.0)
Isawiya
OpenBible.info confidence 116 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.79861, 35.24833
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Nob” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (2) — David comes to Nob, and Ahimelech the priest gives him holy bread, The king sends to call Ahimelech, and Doeg the Edomite kills the priests

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1 Samuel 21:1 Open that verse

Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”

1 Samuel 22:9 Open that verse

Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

1 Samuel 22:11 Open that verse

Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king.

1 Samuel 22:19 Open that verse

He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

Nehemiah 11:32 Open that verse

at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

Isaiah 10:32 Open that verse

This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

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Entry: Nob (place-nob)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/nob
Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 21:1: “Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest.” At 22:9 Doeg the Edomite says, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub”; at 22:11 the king sends to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and at 22:18–19 Doeg the Edomite kills on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod, and he strikes Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep.
Cited evidence: 1SA 21:1–6, engwebp / 1SA 22:6–10, engwebp / 1SA 22:11–19, engwebp / ISA 10:28–32, engwebp / NEH 11:31–36, engwebp
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