Toponym Gibeah in the world's Bibles
Meaning of the name: a hill. Related names are: Benjamin, Israel, Saul . The translations of Gibeah in 19 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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Wear it!Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages: (JOS 15:57)
And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah. (JDG 19:12)
And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah. (JDG 19:13)
And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin. (JDG 19:14)
And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging. (JDG 19:15)
And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites. (JDG 19:16)
And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. (JDG 20:4)
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. (JDG 20:5)
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it; (JDG 20:9)
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel. (JDG 20:10)
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: (JDG 20:13)
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. (JDG 20:14)
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. (JDG 20:15)
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. (JDG 20:19)
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah. (JDG 20:20)
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men. (JDG 20:21)
And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. (JDG 20:25)
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. (JDG 20:29)
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. (JDG 20:30)
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. (JDG 20:31)
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah. (JDG 20:33)
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them. (JDG 20:34)
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah. (JDG 20:36)
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. (JDG 20:37)
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising. (JDG 20:43)
And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched. (1SA 10:26)
Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept. (1SA 11:4)
Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. (1SA 13:2)
And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men. (1SA 13:15)
And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. (1SA 13:16)