Thematic Bible: Nob
Thematic Bible
Nob » The home of ahimelech, the priest
Then the king sent someone to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s household, the priests who were at Nob; and all of them came to the king.
Verse Concepts
Then David went to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came trembling [in fear] to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”
Verse Concepts
Nob » Probable seat of the tabernacle in saul's time
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread; for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence which was removed from before the Lord in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.
Verse Concepts
The priest answered David, “There is no ordinary (unconsecrated) bread on hand, but there is consecrated bread; [you may have it] if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
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Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, do so. For there is no other here except for it.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”
Verse Concepts
Nob » A city » A city of the tribe of benjamin
The people of Benjamin also dwelt from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages, At Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Nob » Called "the city of the priests,"
And he struck Nob the city of the priests with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants; also he struck oxen and donkeys and sheep with the edge of the sword.
Verse Concepts
Nob » Destroyed by saul
“They came upon me in the day of my calamity,
But the Lord was my support.
Nob » Prophecy concerning
Yet today the Assyrian will halt at Nob [the city of priests];
He shakes his fist at the mountain of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.