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Rehob

also known as: Rehov

Hebrew: רְחֹב —transliteration: Rechob or Rehob —meaning: broad or wide place, from rachab (to be or grow wide or large)

This is the name of two biblical men and three places.

  1. Rehob, the father of Hadadezer, king of Zobah (2 Samuel 8:3, 12).

    David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates. And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.

    …Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. —2 Samuel 8:3-4, 11-12

  2. Rehob, a man mentioned in Nehemiah 10:11

  3. Rehob, the city

    This is probably the same as Beth-Rehob (2 Samuel 10:6, 8; Judges 18:28)

    This place is in the north of the Land of Israel (Numbers 13:21).

    It is now supposed to be represented by the castle of Hunin, southwest of Dan, on the road from Hamath into Coele-syria.

  4. Rehob, a town of Asher (Joshua 19:28), to the east of Zidon

  5. Rehob, another town of Asher (Joshua 19:30)

    Against God’s will, this place was kept as a possession of the pagan Canaanites (Judges 1:31).

    Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out. —Judges 1:31-32 KJV

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Article Version: June 12, 2024