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Nob was a priestly town in ancient Israel in the vicinity of Jerusalem. The town is mostly known as the site of a massacre described in the Bible where the town's Hebrew priests are massacred by Doeg the Edomite who acted on orders from King Saul .
Historically identified with the biblical city of Nob mentioned in the Book of Samuel, [9] that association has been eschewed in modern times. [10] The village is mentioned in extrabiblical sources including the writings of 5th-century Roman geographers, 12th-century Crusaders and a Jewish traveller, a 13th-century Syrian geographer, a 15th-century Arab historian, and Western travellers in the ...
[3] [4] This chapter contains the account of David's escape from Saul's repeated attempts to kill him [5] and the massacre of the priests in Nob. [6] This is within a section comprising 1 Samuel 16 to 2 Samuel 5 which records the rise of David as the king of Israel. [7]
Finkelstein, Israel, et al. Shiloh: The Archaeology of a Biblical Site. Tel Aviv, 1993. Schley, Donald G. Shiloh: A Biblical City in Tradition and History, Sheffield, 1989, 2009. This is the only in-depth study of Shiloh from a textual, historical and archaeological perspective available; provides an exhaustive bibliography going back to 1805 ...
According to the Bible, the story of Mount Gerizim takes us back to the story of the time when Moses ordered Joshua to take the Twelve Tribes of Israel to the mountains by Shechem and place half of the tribes, six in number, on the top of Mount Gerizim (Mount of the Blessing), and the other half in Mount Ebal (Mount of the Curse). The two ...
Nov. 18—The chants began at Morningside Park in Albuquerque on Saturday as thunder rumbled above and fat, cold drops fell onto white sheets splashed with red paint, wrapped as if around the ...
Israel said Itzik was on the list of 33 hostages to be released. Nimrod Cohen , 20, was taken from Nahal Oz. After he was kidnapped, his father was invited to meet Pope Francis in Rome along with ...
Abiathar (Hebrew: אֶבְיָתָר ʾEḇyāṯār, "father (of) abundance"/"abundant father"), [1] in the Hebrew Bible, is a son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, [2] the fourth in descent from Eli [3] and the last of Eli's House to be a High Priest.