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Nob

City in the Bible

Location: 31.80° N, 35.23° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)

Mentioned in 6 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Nob is mentioned

  • 1 Samuel 21:1

    Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

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  • 1 Samuel 22:9–11

    9 But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.

    10 Ahimelech inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”

    11 Then the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his father’s whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.

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  • 1 Samuel 22:19

    He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

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  • Isaiah 10:32

    Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

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  • Nehemiah 11:31–33

    31 The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;

    32 in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

    33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

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