Gibeon

Identified as

El Jib

Certainty

Widely agreed (91% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.847° N, 35.183° E

Gibeon, Gibeonites· Geba· Gibbar· Bamah

Founded by

Abiel

• בָּמָה·Bamahmeans “an eminence or high place”
• גֶּ֫בַע·Gebameans “a hill; cup”
• גִּבְעוֹן·Gibeon
• גִּבְעֹנִי·Gibeon
• גִּבָּר·Gibbarmeans “strong, manly”

Includes 2 verses that refer to Gibeon without naming it.

1. Joshua 9:3גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
2. Joshua 9:17גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
3. Joshua 10:1גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
4. Joshua 10:2גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
5. Joshua 10:4גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   “Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”
6. Joshua 10:5גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
7. Joshua 10:6גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”
8. Joshua 10:10גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
9. Joshua 10:12גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
   On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
10. Joshua 10:41גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    Joshua conquered the area from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.
11. Joshua 11:19גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.
12. Joshua 18:25גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
13. Joshua 21:17גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,
14. 2 Samuel 2:12גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
15. 2 Samuel 2:13גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    So Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two groups took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.
16. 2 Samuel 2:16גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side, and they all fell together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is called Helkath-hazzurim.
17. 2 Samuel 2:24גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.
18. 2 Samuel 3:30גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)
19. 2 Samuel 5:25גֶּ֫בַע · Geba
    So David did as the LORD had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
20. 2 Samuel 20:8גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.
21. 2 Samuel 21:1גִּבְעֹנִי · Gibeon
    During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
22. 2 Samuel 21:2גִּבְעֹנִי · Gibeon
    At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
23. 2 Samuel 21:3גִּבְעֹנִי · Gibeon
    So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”
24. 2 Samuel 21:4גִּבְעֹנִי · Gibeon
    The Gibeonites said to him, “We need no silver or gold from Saul or his house, nor should you put to death anyone in Israel for us.” “Whatever you ask, I will do for you,” he replied.
25. 2 Samuel 21:5Referred to, not named
    And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,
26. 2 Samuel 21:6Referred to, not named
    …let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.
27. 2 Samuel 21:9גִּבְעֹנִי · Gibeon
    And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
28. 1 Kings 3:4גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
29. 1 Kings 3:5גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
30. 1 Kings 9:2גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    …the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
31. 1 Chronicles 8:29גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah,
32. 1 Chronicles 9:35גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah.
33. 1 Chronicles 12:4גִּבְעֹנִי · Gibeon
    Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite;
34. 1 Chronicles 14:16גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    So David did as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
35. 1 Chronicles 16:39גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon
36. 1 Chronicles 21:29גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,
37. 2 Chronicles 1:3גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
38. 2 Chronicles 1:13גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.
39. Ezra 2:20גִּבָּר · Gibbar
    …the descendants of Gibbar, 95;
40. Nehemiah 3:7גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon; גִּבְעֹנִי · Gibeon
    Next to them, repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, who were under the authority of the governor of the region west of the Euphrates.
41. Nehemiah 7:25גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    …the descendants of Gibeon, 95;
42. Isaiah 28:21גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
43. Jeremiah 28:1גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
44. Jeremiah 41:12גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    …they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.
45. Jeremiah 41:16גִּבְעוֹן · Gibeon
    Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.
46. Ezekiel 20:29בָּמָה · Bamah
    So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)