Rohob
City of Upper Galilee in the Tetrarchy of Philip.
Description
Jesus evangelizes the northern borders of Israel. On the way, he meets a shepherd:
"I am pasturing my flock between Rohob and Lesemdan, on the border road between here and Naphtali."[1]
Its name
Rohob in the original text by Maria Valtorta. Rehob, Beth-Rehob, Aram Beth Rehob. The term "Rehob" means "broad place" or "broad street" in Hebrew. "Beth-Rehob" means "house of Rehob" or "place of the broad place".
Where is it mentioned in the work?
Learn more about this place
Probably located about a dozen kilometers from Lesemdan, Rohob was the capital of the Aramean kingdom of Syria.[2] The city was hostile to David. The Bible[3] locates it in Lebanon, in the region of Tel Dan. The exact location of the city remains unknown to this day. Some have conjectured it might be at the site of the present-day Hunin, west of Banias.[4]
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- 33° 13’ 10’’ N / 35° 32’ 40’’ E /
- +680m
Notes and references
Article partially based on the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel, by Jean-François Lavère.
- ↑ GRM 330.5.
- ↑ Aramaic was spoken in Galilee.
- ↑ Numbers 13:21 | Joshua 21:31 | Judges 18:28 | | 2 Samuel 10:6-8.
- ↑ A Lemaire, The Journal of the American Oriental Society 7/1/1999.