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However, this would be a place far outside the Edomite territory. The river mentioned could be a river in Edom such as the Zered (now the Wadi al-Hasa) in Jordan. Rehoboth could be identical with a site southeast of the Dead Sea.
"The river" usually means the Euphrates. If the city could have been so far from Edom, it might be identified with Rahaba on the West of the river, 8 miles South of its confluence with the Khabur.
Genesis 36:37 and 1 Chronicles 1:48 speak of Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates (Heb. has only “river”). He is one of “the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites.”
An ancient city on the Euphrates ( Genesis 36:37; 1 Chronicles 1:48), "Rehoboth by the river." Named among the cities of Asshur ( Genesis 10:11). Probably, however, the words "rehoboth'ir" are to be translated as in the Vulgate and the margin of A.V., "the streets of the city," or rather "the public square of the city", i.e., of Nineveh.
REHOBOTH BY THE RIVER (Heb. Rechoboth' hanNahar', רחֹבוֹת הִנָּהִר, i. Rechoboth of the River; Sept. ῾Ροωβὼθ [Iv. r. ῾Ρωβὼθ] ἡ παρὰ πόταμον; Vulg. de fluvio Roboth, or Rohohoth, quc juxta anenem sita est), the city of a certain Saul or Shaul, one of the early kings of the Edomites (Ge 36:37; 1Ch 1:48).
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Rehoboth ( wide places , i.e. streets ). The third of the series of wells dug by Isaac, ( Genesis 26:22 ) in the Philistines' territory, lately identified as er-Ruheibeh , 16 miles south of Beersheba.
