Judges 8:11

Describes Gideon's route going E. from Penuel. by the way of them that dwelt in tentsis a doubtful rendering of a doubtful text. With slight corrections we may transl. towards the way of the tent-dwellers, i.e. the Bedouin route, such, for instance, as the present Haj road from Damascus to Mecca. The Targ. paraphrases, -by the way to the camp of the Arabs who encamp in tents in the desert east of Nobah." Strictly by the way ofought to be by the way toa place; hence Moore supposes that the tent-dwellersis a corruption of some place-name.

Nobah has been identified, on the strength of Numbers 32:42 (Nobah = Kenath), with Ḳanawât on the west of the Ḥaurân mountains; but this is much too far north. Jogbehah(belonging to Gad, Numbers 32:35) has survived in the modern -Ajbçhât, a ruined site 6 m. N.N.W. of -Ammân.

secure Not expecting an attack; cf. Judges 18:7; Genesis 34:25; Micah 2:8.