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HOBAB hō’ băb ( חֹבָב, H2463, beloved ). A name that occurs only twice in the Bible ( Num 10:29; Judg 4:11 ). In the first passage it is the name of the father-in-law of Moses. The second passage is ambiguous, and it is not certain whether Hobab is the father-in-law or the brother-in-law of Moses.
Feb 29, 2024 · What Can We Learn from Hobab in the Bible? Hobab is an example of God working through the Gentiles, even in the Old Testament, hinting at his grand plan for the world's future. He’s an exemplary figure whom we should model in our everyday lives. Here are three main lessons we can pull from the person of Hobab in the Bible.
HOBAB. Numbers 10:29. There is some doubt with regard to the identity of this Hobab. Probably he was a man of about the same age as Moses, his brother-in-law, and a son of Jethro, a wily Kenite, a Bedouin Arab. Moses begs him to join himself to his motley company, and to be to him in the wilderness ‘instead of eyes.’.
This name is found in two places only ( Numbers 10:29; Judges 4:11) Hobab was brother-in-law to Moses. (B.C. 1530.) ATS Bible Dictionary. Hobab. The son of Raguel or Reuel, Numbers 10:29. According to one supposition he was the same as Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, Zipporah being called the daughter of Reuel as one of his descendants.
Hoh´bab. One of three names for Moses’s father-in-law ( Judg 4:11 ). With Jethro ( Exod 3:1; Exod 18:1) and Reuel ( Exod 2:18 ), the name belongs to a complex tradition about Moses’s family. ( Num 10:29) defines Hobab as the son of Reuel, the founding father of the Kenites.
Come with us and we will treat you well,[ c] for the Lord has promised good things[ d] for Israel.” 30 But Hobab[ e] said to him, “I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.” 31 Moses[ f] said, “Do not leave us,[ g] because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.[ h] 32 And if you...
The venture of faith takes a word for the most solid thing in the universe, and the Incarnate Word of God for the basis of all our hope, the authority for all our conduct, 'the Master-light of all our seeing.'. II. Hobab suggests to us, secondly --. The sort of life that follows the venture of faith.
