Numbers Chapter 32 verse 42 Holy Bible
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.
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And Nobah went and took Kenath, and its dependent villages, and called it Nobah, after his name.
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And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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And Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages of it, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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and Nobah hath gone and captureth Kenath, and its villages, and calleth it Nobah, by his own name.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 42. - Nobah. As this chieftain is nowhere else named, we may probably conclude that he was one of the companions of Jair, holding a position more or less subordinate to him. Kenath. The modern Kenawat, on the western slope of the Jebel Hauran, the most easterly point ever occupied by the Israelites. It is apparently the Nobah mentioned in Judges 8:11, but it has reverted (like so many others) to its old name. In spite of the uncertainties which hang over the conquest of this north-eastern territory, there is something very characteristic in the part played by the Machirite leaders. That they acted with an independent vigour bordering on audacity, that they showed great personal prowess, and had great personal authority with the humbler members of their family, and held something like the position of feudal superiors among them, is evident from the way in which they are spoken cf. And this is quite in keeping with the character of the Manassites in after times. The "governors" who came at the call of Barak, Gideon, the greatest of the warrior-judges, and probably Jephthah also ("the Gileadite"), as well as the younger Jail maintained the warlike and impetuous character of their race. If "Elijah the Tishbite" was really from this region (although this is extremely doubtful), we should find in him the characteristic daring and self-reliance of Machir transmuted into their spiritual equivalents.
