OBOTH, an Encampment of the Hebrews in the Wilderness. From Punon they went to Oboth, and from Oboth to Jeabarim. Numb. xxi. 10. xxxiii. 43. Ptolemy speaks of a City call’d Oboda, or Eboda, in Arabia Petræa, which is the same as Oboth. Pliny, and the Geographer Stephanus mention it also. Stephanus makes it belong to the Nabatheans, and Pliny1 to the Helmodeans, a People of Arabia. ‘Twas at Oboth that they worship’d the God Obodos, which Tertullian2 joins with Dusares, another King of this Country.
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