Bible Cities

Gilboa Scripture - 1 Samuel 31:1

Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa....

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Gaza Scripture - Amos 1:7

But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:...

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Gennesaret in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a garden of riches. (1.) A town of Naphtali, called Chinnereth (Josh. 19:35), sometimes in the plural form Chinneroth (11:2). In later times the name was gradually changed to Genezar and Gennesaret (Luke 5:1). This city stood on the western shore of the lake to which it gave its name. No trace of it remains. The plain of Gennesaret has be...

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Gath Scripture - 2 Chronicles 26:6

And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines....

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Gath Scripture - 2 Samuel 21:22

These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants....

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Gaza Scripture - Judges 16:21

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house....

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Gaza Scripture - Judges 16:1

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her....

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Gennesaret in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(See CINNEROTH; GALILEE, SEA OF). At the N.W. angle was the fertile plain "Gennesaret." Crescent in shape, extending from Khan Minyeh on the N. to the steep hill behind Mejdel on the S., called el Ghuweir, "the little ghor," watered by the spring Capharnaum (B. J., 3:10, sec. 8). It is also called "the Sea of Tiberias." All its names are drawn...

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Gath Scripture - 1 Samuel 5:8

They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about [thither]....

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