This document is about Nob (Benjamin_Region). For other homonyms, please refer to the Nob document.
Nob is a region near Jerusalem allocated to the tribe of Benjamin.
When David fled from King Saul, he first fled to this region. The tabernacle with the Ark of the Covenant was in this region, and it appears that priests gathered and lived there. Here, David obtained food from the high priest Ahimelech and also obtained Goliath's sword. Subsequently, due to this incident, King Saul's wrath was incurred, and the priests were massacred.
1 Sam 21:1Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled at meeting David and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”
1 Sam 22:9Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s servants, answered, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Sam 22:11Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were at Nob, and they all came to the king.
1 Sam 22:19And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
Isa 10:32This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
After the Babylonian captivity, when the Benjaminites returned, they settled here.