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Hobab Beloved, the Kenite, has been usually identified with Jethro (q.v.), Exo 18:5, Exo 18:27; compare Num 10:29, Num 10:30. In Jdg 4:11, the word rendered "father-in-law" means properly any male relative by marriage (compare Gen 19:14, "son-in-law," A.V.), and should be rendered "brother-in-law," as in the R.V. His descendants followed Israel to Canaan (Num 10:29), and at first pitched their tents near Jericho, but afterwards settled in the south in the borders of Arad (Jdg 1:8, Jdg 1:16).

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