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This was a region east of the Jordan, occupied by King Sihon of the Amorites and Moab. Its original name was Kenath. Nobah, a man from the tribe of Manasseh, captured this place and named it Nobah.

Num 21:30We have shot them down; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon, and we have laid waste as far as Nobah, which is near Medeba.

Num 32:42Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah after his own name.

After this, it seems to have become a region of foreign peoples again during the period of the Judges.

Judges 8:11Now Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the camp, for the camp was secure.

It is stated that the descendants of Machir reoccupied it.

1 Chron 2:23Geshur and Aram took from them the towns of Jair, with Kenath and its villages, sixty towns in all. These were all descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.

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