Tob in the Bible

Meaning: good; goodness

Exact Match

The Levites with them were Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah; the priests, Elishama and Jehoram, were with these Levites.

Thematic Bible



He threw stones at David and all of King David's servants, as well as all the people and the soldiers who were on his right and on his left.

The Lord has punished you for all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!"


So Jephthah left his half-brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah's gang and traveled with him.

When the Ammonites attacked, the leaders of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back from the land of Tob.


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