Skip to main content

Person

Jobab

king of Madon

King of Madon who joined the northern Canaanite coalition against Joshua and was defeated at the waters of Merom.

1 appearances1 Bible books1 known aliases

Who or what is this?

Jobab was the king of Madon, a city-state in the north of the land. When 's victories in the south alarmed the northern kings, Jobab joined the coalition assembled by Jabin of , which included kings from the hill country, the plains, and the coasts. Joshua attacked the confederate forces at the waters of and routed them; the biblical account records that Joshua took all those kings and smote them (Joshua 11). Madon and its king are not mentioned again after their defeat.

People, places, and events in this story

These connections are explicitly linked in this entity's source description.

Places in this story

Places explicitly linked from this entity's description. Select a marker to open its page.

Where this appears in Scripture

Start with the key scenes, then open the complete evidence by book or reference type.

Key passages

All appearances1