Oreb

OREB, one of the Princes of the Midianites, who was kill’d with Zeb, another Prince of the same People. While Gideon pursued the Army of the Midianites, he sent Word to the Men of Ephraim, that they should secure the Passes of the Jordan, that the Midianites by Flight might not return into their own Country. The Ephraimites therefore guarding the Passes, took the two Chiefs of the Midianites, and kill’d Oreb at the Rock of Oreb, and Zeb at the Wine-press of Zeb. Some think that Oreb, or the Rock of Oreb, was a Village, or at least that from this Time one was begun to be formed there. Eusebius and St. Jerom speak of a little Place called Araba, three Miles from Scythopolis, towards the West; and Herman Vanderhart thinks it was there that the Orebim dwelt, who fed the Prophet Elijah concealed near the Brook of Cherith. He pretends that the Translators have very preposterously made Ravens of these Orebites.

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