Gilboa in Easton's Bible Dictionary
boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua', memorable
as
the scene of Saul's disastrous defeat by the
Philistines. Here
also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by
his own
hand (1 Sam. 28:4; 31:1-8; 2 Sam. 1:6-21; 21:12; 1
Chr. 10:1,
8). It was a low barren range of mountains bounding
the valley
of Esdraelon (Jezreel) on the east, between it and the
Jordan
valley. When the tidings of this defeat were conveyed
to David,
he gave utterance to those pathetic words in the "Song
of the
Bow" (2 Sam. 1:19-27).
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