Thematic Bible: Nob
Thematic Bible
Nob » The home of ahimelech, the priest
The king sent for Ahitub's son Ahimelech the priest and for all his father's family who were priests at Nob. All of them came to the king.
David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech was trembling as he came to meet David. Ahimelech told him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"
Nob » Probable seat of the tabernacle in saul's time
So the priest gave him consecrated bread because no bread was there except the Bread of the Presence that had been removed from the LORD's presence and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
The priest answered David: "There is no ordinary bread available; only consecrated bread, provided that the young men have kept themselves from women."
The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah is wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it because there is no other except it here." So David said, "There is none like it. Give it to me."
Nob » A city » A city of the tribe of benjamin
The descendants of Benjamin lived from Geba to Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages, Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Nob » Called "the city of the priests,"
He attacked the priestly town of Nob with the sword. Men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys and sheep were put to the sword.
Nob » Destroyed by saul
Nob » Prophecy concerning
This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fists at the mountain that is the Daughter of Zion, at Jerusalem's hill.