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• Jobab (King of Madon)People

  Jobab was king of Madon, a city in northern Canaan. Summoned by Jabin king of Hazor, he joined the northern coalition and was defeated by the Israelites under Joshua at the waters of Merom (Joshua 11:1; 12:19).

• Joshua 11Bible

  Joshua 11 recounts Israel's defeat of the northern Canaanite coalition led by Jabin king of Hazor at the waters of Merom and the burning of Hazor, and it summarizes Joshua's entire conquest of Canaan.

• JabinPeople

  Jabin was king of Hazor, a city in northern Canaan. A king of Hazor by this name appears in both Joshua 11 and Judges 4; in Judges, Deborah and Barak defeat Sisera, the commander of his army.

• HazorBible

  Hazor was a major Canaanite city north of the Sea of Galilee. It appears in Scripture in connection with Joshua's northern conquest, the war in the time of Deborah, and Solomon's building of cities.

• Pool of SiloamBible

  The Pool of Siloam was a reservoir at the southern end of the City of David in Jerusalem. In John 9, Jesus sent a man who had been blind from birth to wash there.

• MarahBible

  Marah was the first place where the Israelites stopped in the wilderness after crossing the Red Sea, a spring whose water was too bitter to drink. It is the setting of the event in Exodus 15 in which Moses cast a tree into the bitter water and made it sweet.

• MeribahBible

  Meribah is a Hebrew place name meaning "strife." It is the place where the Israelites in the wilderness quarreled with Moses because they had no water and where God brought water out of a rock. It appears in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

• Water from the RockBible

  The water from the rock refers to the events in which God, through Moses, brought water out of a rock when the Israelites in the wilderness complained because they had no water to drink. The events are recorded in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

• Massah and MeribahBible

  Massah and Meribah are the names given to places in the wilderness where, after the Exodus, the people of Israel quarreled with Moses over the lack of water and tested God. Massah means "testing," and Meribah means "quarreling."

• Hezekiah's TunnelBible

  Hezekiah's Tunnel is a rock-cut tunnel that Hezekiah, king of Judah, is believed to have dug to bring the waters of the Gihon Spring into Jerusalem in preparation for an Assyrian invasion. Today it is also called the Siloam Tunnel.

• Numbers 20Bible

  Numbers 20 recounts the death of Miriam at Kadesh and the incident at the waters of Meribah, after which Moses and Aaron are told that they will not enter Canaan. The chapter also records Edom's refusal to let Israel pass through its territory and the death of Aaron on Mount Hor.

• Ten PlaguesBible

  The Ten Plagues are the ten judgments that God brought upon Egypt through Moses and Aaron, as recorded in Exodus 7–12. After the final plague, the death of the firstborn, and the institution of the Passover, Israel departs from Egypt.

• Jezreel ValleyBible

  The Jezreel Valley is a broad plain in northern Israel between the hill country of Galilee and the hill country of Samaria. It is the setting for the stories of Gideon, Saul, Ahab, and Jehu, and in the Book of Hosea it becomes a symbol of both judgment and restoration.

• 2 Kings 2Bible

  The chapter of 2 Kings in which Elijah is taken up to heaven by a whirlwind, and Elisha, receiving his mantle and spirit, parts the Jordan, heals the waters of Jericho, and begins his prophetic ministry.

• Exodus 7Bible

  Exodus 7 is the chapter in which Moses and Aaron perform the sign of turning a rod into a serpent before Pharaoh and in which the first plague occurs, as the waters of the Nile ("the river") are turned to blood.

• Mount AbarimBible

  Mount Abarim is a mountain range in the land of Moab east of the Jordan River, where Moses went up before his death to view the land of Canaan. Mount Nebo is described as one of the peaks of this range.

• Kadesh-barneaBible

  Kadesh-barnea was a place where the Israelites stayed for an extended period in the wilderness after the Exodus. It is known as the site of the twelve spies' report, the people's unbelief, and the incident of the waters of Meribah.

• Joshua 4Bible

  Joshua 4 records how, after Israel crossed the Jordan River, twelve men, one chosen from each tribe, carried twelve stones from the middle of the river and set them up at Gilgal as a memorial.

• 1 Peter 3:21Bible Verses

  A verse that compares the waters of Noah's flood to baptism, calling baptism "the like figure" that "doth also now save us." Because denominations understand the role of baptism in salvation differently, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of the doctrine of baptism.