from his brethren. Heb. from the face of. Tob. probably the same as Ish-Tob; and appears to have been a part of Syria, near Zobah, Rheob, and Maachah, east of Jordan, and in the most northern part of the portion of Manasseh. If so, it could not be far from Gilead, the country of Jephthah. This country is called Tobie or Tubin,

1Mac.

Judges 5:13 Then he made him that remains have dominion over the nobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.

; and the Jews who inhabited this district Tubieni,

2 Mac.

12:17

2 Samuel 10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David...

vain men

Judges 9:4 And they gave him three score and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light persons...

1 Samuel 22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves to him...

1 Samuel 27:2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

1 Samuel 30:22-24 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us...

Job 30:1-10 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock...

Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company...