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Summary
Gibeah was a major city in the territory of Binyamin.
Currently identified as Tel el-Ful (Y. Aharoni).
- Gibeah was the setting of the infamous story of the "Concubine at Gibeah" sparked a civil war between the tribe of Binyamin and the rest of the tribes of Israel. The war resulted in the city being destroyed (Judges, chapters 19-20).
- Gibeah was the capital city of King Shaul (I Samuel), and it was also the place where Shaul's descendants were impaled at the hands of the Gibeonites (II Samuel 21, 6-9).
- Gibeah was the hometown of Ittai ben Rivai, one of David's warriors (II Samuel 23, 29; I Chronicles 11, 31).
- The town of origin of Michayhu, the mother of Yerovam II, was Gibeah (II Chronicles 13, 2).
- On their march to Jerusalem, the troops of Ashur encamped in Gibeah (Isaiah 10, 29).
- Hoshea prophesied about the destruction of Gibeah (Hosea 5, 8; 10, 9).