First name Gibeon in the world's Bibles
Meaning of the name: hill; cup; thing lifted up. Related names are: Israel, Joshua, Solomon . The translations of Gibeon in 19 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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Wear it!And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, (JOS 9:3)
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim. (JOS 9:17)
Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; (JOS 10:1)
That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty. (JOS 10:2)
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. (JOS 10:4)
Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it. (JOS 10:5)
And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. (JOS 10:6)
And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. (JOS 10:10)
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. (JOS 10:12)
And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon. (JOS 10:41)
There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle. (JOS 11:19)
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, (JOS 18:25)
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, (JOS 21:17)
And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. (2SA 2:12)
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool. (2SA 2:13)
And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon. (2SA 2:16)
Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. (2SA 2:24)
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. (2SA 3:30)
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. (2SA 20:8)
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. (1KI 3:4)
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. (1KI 3:5)
That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. (1KI 9:2)
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah: (1CH 8:29)
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah: (1CH 8:29)
And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah: (1CH 9:35)
And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah: (1CH 9:35)
David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer. (1CH 14:16)
And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon, (1CH 16:39)
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. (1CH 21:29)
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness. (2CH 1:3)