Nob
Nob was a city of priests near Jerusalem, known for a massacre ordered by King Saul and as a temporary location of the Ark of the Covenant.
The name Nob means “discourse; prophecy”
PlaceOld Testament3 books6 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at 1 Samuel 21:1; only referred to as Nob (נֹב).
Location
- Identified as
- Ras el Mesharif
- Certainty
- Uncertain (20% of scholarship) · 6 other possible locations
- Coordinates
- 31.793° N, 35.244° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- נֹבNob
Mentions
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
- …in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
- Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.