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Jobab

Mentioned in 1449 BC traditional (Jones)

A Canaanitish king (Josh. 11:1) who joined the confederacy against Joshua.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

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1 verse

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Jobab, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. possible location: Achshaph1
  2. likely location: Hazor1
  3. possible location: Madon1
  4. likely location: Shimron1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1474–1424 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

1 tagged verse in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Joshua1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBJobab 9
KJVJobab 9
ASVJobab 9

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

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Joshua1 verse
  1. 11:1

    Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

A Canaanitish king (Josh. 11:1) who joined the confederacy against Joshua.