Tob

The land of Tob was a region in the Transjordan, somewhere east of Gilead toward the Syrian desert. After Jephthah was driven out of his father's house by his half-brothers, "he fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went raiding with him" (Judges 11:3). When the Ammonites threatened Israel, the elders of Gilead came to Tob to beg Jephthah's return, eventually crowning him as their head at Mizpeh of Gilead. Tob reappears in Davidic history: when the Ammonites hired Aramean mercenaries to fight David, the men of Tob were among them (2 Samuel 10:6, 10:8). Generally located in the highlands east of Pella, on the edge of the Syrian Arabah.