JABBOK, A stream on the east of the Jordan River, the northern
Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the JABBOK, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the JABBOK, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably."