Abimelech
: priest (Eli Ithamar) of Nob, whom Saul killed; Ahimelech I,a priest, Ahimelech II; son of Abiathar son of Ahimelech I,a man who was part of David's fugitive band; a Hittite
Dodo
: grandfather of Tola the judge--before Saul's time,son of Ahohi; one of David's military elite,father of Elhanan, one of David's military elite from Bethlehem
Ephraim
: the tribe of Ephraim as a whole,the northern kingdom of Israel
Israel
: a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
Issachar
: the tribe of Israel that came from his Jacob's son Issachar,son of Jacob and Leah; founder of the tribe of Issachar,the tribe of Issachar in Israel,son of Obed-Edom
Puah
: son of Issachar
Shamir
: a town in the hill country of Judah,a town in the hill country of Ephraim,chief son of Micah (Uzziel Kohath Levi)
Tola
: son of Issachar,son of Puah (Dodo Issachar); the judge who succeeded Abimelech
Abel
: the second son of Adam and Eve; the brother of Cain,an English name representing two different Hebrew names,as representing the Hebrew name 'Hebel' or 'Habel',the second son of Adam,as representing the Hebrew name 'Abel',a town in northern Israel near Dan (OS)
Ammon
: the tribe/nation of people descended from Ben-Ammi, Lot's son,Territory of the tribe/nation of Ammon
Ammonites
: the tribe/nation of people descended from Ben-Ammi, Lot's son,Territory of the tribe/nation of Ammon
Amorites
: members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia
Arnon
: a river forming the southern border of Ammon east of the Dead Sea
Aroer
: a town by the Wadi Arnon on the border of Reuben and Gad,a town in the desert of Judah
Balak
: a son of Zippor,son of Zippor, King of Moab, who hired Balaam against Israel
Chemosh
: a pagan god; the national god of Moab
Edom
: resident(s) of the region of Edom
Egypt
: descendants of Mizraim
Gilead
: a mountainous region east of the Jordan & north of the Arnon to Hermon,son of Machir son of Manasseh; founder of the clan of Gilead,father of Jephthah the judge,son of Michael of the tribe of Gad
Gileadite
: member(s) of the clan, or residents of the region of Gilead
Heshbon
: a town of south-eastern Judah
Israel
: a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
Jabbok
: a river flowing west into the Jordan River 40 km north of the Dead Sea
Jahaz
: a town of Reuben given to the Merarites
Jephthah
: a man who judged Israel around 1100 B.C.,a man who judged Israel; son of Gilead
Jordan
: the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)
Kadesh
: an oasis 100 km south of Gaza & 120 km NNW of Ezion-Geber, where Israel made an encampment
Manasseh
: the tribe of Manasseh.
Minnith
: a town of Ammon which gives its name to a kind of grain (OS)
Mizpah
: a town of Moab
Moab
: resident(s) of the country of Moab
Red Sea
: the ocean between Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula,the sea between Egypt and Arabia
Sihon
: the king of the Amorites in Moses time
Tob
: a region probably north of the Jabbok in north Transjordania (OS)
Zippor
: father of Balak, king of Moab, who opposed Moses