Toah (Hastings' Dictionary)

See Nahath. TOB, The Land of (a'rn py 'land of good'; y^ Tili,i ; terra Toh). — The place to which .Jeplithah fled for refuge from his brethren, and in which be VOL. IV. — no was living when the elders of Oilcad went to fetch him on the occa.sion of the Ammonite invasion of Gilead (.!•' IP- 'i. At a later date, 12,OUO ' men of Tob' (.\\ Ish-tob) formed part of the force raised by the Ammonites in their war with David (2 S l(j«. 9 3 EiffTu^).

They are here associated with the Sj'rians of Beth, rehob and Zobah, and the king of Maacali — all small Aianiican states. The 'land of Tubias'(AV 'places of Tobie'), in which all the Jews were put to death by the Gentiles (1 Mac o''), was apparently the same place. In 2 Mac 12" Charax, a place TiiO stadia from the strong town of Gephyrum, or Caspin, is .siiid to have been occupied by Jews called Tubieni, i.e. ' men of Tob.' Po.ssibly 9aC/3o, which, acconling to Ptolemy (v. 19), was S.W.

of Zobah, is identical with Tob. The Jerusalem Talmud explains ' land of Tob ' by Siisitha — the 'province of Hijipene' (Neubauer, Gfog. du Talm. 239). In this case Tob would be Hippos, or Susitha, now Susiyeh, on the E. side of tlie Sea of Galilee, and not far from Gaiiiala, Kal'at el-Hiisn. Conder (Hbk. to Bible, 295) and G. A. Smith (HGHL 587) identify Tob with et- Taiyibch, about 10 miles south of Gadara (Umm Keis).

De Saulcy identities it with Thnbitn, about 9 miles east of the bridge over the Jordan called Jisr Ben&t YakHb. C. W. Wilson. TOB-ADONUAH (.tiiik aits 'good is the Lord Jah ' [Gray, UPN 140, n. 3] ; B Tw^a5a;;3etd, A and Luc. Tw^aoojud). — One of the Levites sent by king Jehoshapliat to teach in the cities of Judah, 2 Ch 17".