REHOB. I. (n)il, and nin-1, e a street ;' also written Minn roz ; 'Pap ; `Poctif3 ; Alex. Tothp ; Rohob), a city on the northern border of Palestine. It is first mentioned in connection with the mission of the spies :—They searched the land, from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehab, as men come to Hamath' (Num. xiii. 20. Rehob was thus the extreme point of their journey northward. Its situation is described as on the leading route to Hamath. From southern and central Palestine there was just one way to Hamath, leading up the valley between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon. That valley, however, extends from the base of Hermon to the fountain of the Orontes, a distance of eighty miles ; but it seems probable that the spies did not proceed farther than its southern end, and there Rehob may have been situated. From 2 Sam. x. 6, 8, we learn that it was a city of the Syrians ; and it is grouped with Zoba and Maacah. The latter province lay at the base of Hermon [MAACAH]. One other incidental notice appears to fix its position definitely at the southern end of the great valley. In describing Laish, or Dan, the sacred writer says, ' it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-Rehob' (Judg. xviii. 28). These state
ments led Dr. Robinson to suggest that the site of Rehob may be marked by the village and castle of Hunin [BETH-REHOB].
2. (Mill ; 'Padfl ; Alex. PocN3 ; Rehab), a town on the northern or north-eastern border of Asher, and apparently not far distant ft Dm ` Great Zidon.' It is mentioned only in Josh. xix. 28 ; and its site is unknown.
3. (Taal; ; 'Pad/3 ; 'Epe6 ; ‘Pod))5 • Alex. 'Path/3 and 'Popp ; Rehab), another city of Asher, situated on the southern border of the tribe (Josh. xix. 3o). It was assigned to the Levites (xxi. 31 ; Chron. vi. 75) ; the Israelites, however, were unable to drive out the old Canaanites (Judg. i. 31). Eusebius and Jerome identify the Rehab of Asher with the Syrian city of Rehob, or Beth Rehob, and locate it at the distance of four miles from the Scythopolis (Onomast., s. v. Rea). In this they are in part followed by Reland (Pal., p. 1191 and Winer (R. W, s. v. Rechob). But the cities of Asher are manifestly distinct from Beth Rehob, as the territory of that tribe lay along the shore of the Mediterranean. The site of Rehob is unknown.—J. L. P.