Numbers 32:42
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
In Context
41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
Cross References
Judges 8:11And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the host was secure.
Psalms 49:11(49-12) Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:29-42
Inheritance of the Reubenites. ( b. c. 1452.) 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord , and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have… Read the whole commentary →