OBOTH, an encampment of the Hebrews in the wilderness. From Punon they went to Oboth, and from Oboth to Ije-abarim. (Numb. xxi. 10. xxxiii. 43.).
Obser-
vatory.
||
Observa-
tory.
Ptolemy speaks of a city called Oboda, or Eboða, in Arabia Petraea, which is the same as Oboth. Pliny and the geographer Stephanus mention it also. Stephanus makes it belong to the Nabatheans, and Pliny to the Helmodeans, a people of Arabia. It was at Oboth that they worshipped the god Obodur, which Tertulian joins with Dufares, another god or king of this country.