Gibeah in Biblical History

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What is Gibeah?
GIB'EAH
(a hill), the name of several towns. 1. Gibeah in the hill-country of Judah, Josh 15:57; now probably Jeboh, 10 miles north of Hebron. This is doubted by Grove, but supported by Robinson, Porter, and Conder. 2. Gibeah of Benjamin, 1 Sam 13:2; first mentioned in Jud 19; a shameful crime by some of its people nearly destroyed the tribe of Benjamin, Jud 20-21. It is generally regarded the same as Gibeah of Saul, and located at Tuleil el-Ful, "hill of beans," 4 miles north of Jerusalem, and east of the road from Jerusalem to Nabulus (Shechem). 3. Gibeah of Saul is held by most authorities to be the same as Gibeah of Benjamin, but Baedeker's Hand-book assumes that they are distinct cities, and holds that Geba and Gibeah were sometimes confounded. For in 1 Sam 14:1-15, Geba near Michmash, or Jeba, would answer the conditions of Jonathan's exploit, but V. 1 Sam 14:16 suddenly takes us back to Gibeah of Benjamin, toward which the Philistines would hardly have retreated if any other route was open to them. Again, in 1 Sam 13:2, 1 Sam 13:15, Jonathan is at Gibeah of Benjamin, and Samuel also, but in v. 1 Sam 13:3 Jonathan smites the Philistines at Gebah, and he and Saul remain at "Geba," as many versions read, and Gibeah, as in our English version. For notices of Gibeah of Saul, see 1 Sam 10:26; 1 Sam 11:4; 1 Sam 15:34; 1 Sam 22:6; 1 Sam 23:19; Isa 10:29, etc. In the first passage it is called "Gibeah Elohim," meaning, in the Hebrew, "Gibeah of God," or "the hill," as our version reads in 1 Sam 7:1, and correctly. 4. Gibeah in Kirjath-jearim was no doubt a hill in that city, 2 Sam 6:3-4, on which the house of Abinadab stood, where the ark was left. 5. Gibeah in the field, Jud 20:31; probably the same as Geba. 6. Gibeah-haaraloth, Josh 5:3, margin. See Gilgal.

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