Gibeah

Gibeah, a city of Benjamin, was the hometown of Saul and the site of infamous atrocities during the time of the judges.

The name Gibeah means “a hill”

PlaceOld Testament7 books45 verses

Summary

A location first mentioned at Joshua 18:28; referred to as Gibeah (גִּבְעָה, גֶּ֫בַע, גִּבְעַת, גִּבְעָתִי).

Location

Identified as
Tel el Ful
Certainty
Likely (67% of scholarship) · 2 other possible locations
Coordinates
31.823° N, 35.231° E
Gibeah
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Glossary entries

Gibeah Gibeathite Gibeath

Alternative names

Mentions

  1. Joshua 18:28גִּבְעַת · Gibeath
    Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
  2. Joshua 24:33גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.
  3. Judges 19:12גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
  4. Judges 19:13גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    He continued, “Come, let us try to reach one of these towns to spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”
  5. Judges 19:14גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
  6. Judges 19:15גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.
  7. Judges 19:16גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.
  8. Judges 20:4גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
  9. Judges 20:5גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
  10. Judges 20:9גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as the lot dictates.
  11. Judges 20:10גֶּ֫בַע · Gibeah
    We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
  12. Judges 20:13גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.
  13. Judges 20:14גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.
  14. Judges 20:15גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
  15. Judges 20:19גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    The next morning the Israelites set out and camped near Gibeah.
  16. Judges 20:20גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.
  17. Judges 20:21גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
  18. Judges 20:25גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
  19. Judges 20:29גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
  20. Judges 20:30גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.
  21. Judges 20:31גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
  22. Judges 20:34גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
  23. Judges 20:36גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
  24. Judges 20:37גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
  25. Judges 20:43גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
  26. 1 Samuel 10:5גִּבְעַת · Gibeath
    After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
  27. 1 Samuel 10:10גִּבְעַת · Gibeath
    When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Then the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied along with them.
  28. 1 Samuel 10:26גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.
  29. 1 Samuel 11:4גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
  30. 1 Samuel 13:2גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.
  31. 1 Samuel 13:15גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.
  32. 1 Samuel 14:2גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,
  33. 1 Samuel 14:16גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Now when Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in Benjamin looked and saw the troops melting away and scattering in every direction,
  34. 1 Samuel 15:34גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.
  35. 1 Samuel 22:6גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.
  36. 1 Samuel 23:19גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
  37. 1 Samuel 26:1גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”
  38. 2 Samuel 21:6גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    …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.
  39. 2 Samuel 23:29גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites,
  40. 1 Chronicles 11:31גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah of the Benjamites, Benaiah the Pirathonite,
  41. 1 Chronicles 12:3גִּבְעָתִי · Gibeathite
    Ahiezer their chief and Joash, who were the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;
  42. Isaiah 10:29גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    They have crossed at the ford: “We will spend the night at Geba.” Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
  43. Hosea 5:8גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!
  44. Hosea 9:9גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
  45. Hosea 10:9גִּבְעָה · Gibeah
    Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?