Tob in the Bible

Meaning: good; goodness

Exact Match

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

Verse ConceptsHalf brothers

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

Thematic Bible



He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

The LORD has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son. Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood."


Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.

It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;