Gibeah
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Name
- Gibeah – could be a variation of the Hebrew word of Geba, meaning “hill,” other names include Gibeah of Benjamin and Gibeah of Saul
- Tell el-Ful – modern name of the Arabic town, meaning “mound of horse beans”
Location
- Central Benjamin Plateau
- 3 miles (48 km) north of Jerusalem along the Watershed Ridge
- 2,754 ft. (860 m) above sea level
Archaeology
- 1868 - C. Warren went on a two-week excavation
- 1874 - C. R. Conder described the remains
- 1922-1923 - W. F. Albright led his first excavation
- 1933 - Albright returned for a second excavation
- 1960 - Albright’s work was published
- 1964 - P. W. Lapp conducted a six-week salvage excavation
Ancient History (History of Ancient Israel and Judah)
- Benjamin allotment - Joshua 18:28
- Hometown of Phinehas and the burial place of his father, Eleazer, the son of Aaron - Joshua 24:33
- Story of the Levite and his concubine and the Israelite Civil War - Judges 19-21
- Israel’s first king, King Saul, reigned from Gibeah for 38 years - 1 Samuel 8-31
- Prophetic mention during the period of the Divided Kingdom - Hosea 5:8, 9:9, 10:9; Isaiah 10:29
- The 10th Roman Legion camped here in their assault on Jerusalem in 70 A.D. - Josephus, War of the Jews
Modern History
- King Hussein of Jordan began construction on his West Bank palace in Tel el-Ful, but construction was halted when the Six-Day War broke out. Since Israel won the war King Hussein's palace was never finished and now all that remains is the skeleton of the building.
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External links
- [1] AncientSandals.com
- [2] Pictorial Library of Bible Lands vol. 2
- Jewish Encyclopedia.
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Books
- P. Arnold, Gibeah, Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992).
- N. Lapp, Tel el-Ful, Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997).
- L. A. Sinclair, An Archaeological Study of Gibeah (1960).
- W. F. Albright, The Archeology of Palestine (1971).