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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Hobab
Moses asked him to be Israel's guide out of Sinai, since he knew the wilderness. He was a Kenite related to Jethro, and Judges uses a word for him that has led some to think he was Jethro himself. His descendants settled near Jericho and later around Arad.
Moses asked him to be Israel's guide out of Sinai, since he knew the wilderness. He was a Kenite related to Jethro, and Judges uses a word for him that has led some to think he was Jethro himself. His descendants settled near Jericho and later around Arad.
Hobab was Moses' brother-in-law, a Kenite and relative of the Midianite priest Jethro, whose knowledge of the wilderness terrain Moses sought when Israel set out from Sinai, asking him to serve as guide (Numbers 10:29-32). Judges 4:11 uses the same relational term for him as for Moses' father-in-law, an ambiguity in the Hebrew word for in-law that has led some to identify Hobab with Jethro himself rather than as a separate individual. His descendants, the Kenites, settled among the Israelites, first near Jericho and later in the Negev around Arad (Judges 1:16).
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- Numbers 10:29
- Judges 4:11
