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Summary
Geba is a city of Kohanim in the tribal territory of Binyamin.
Currently identified with Jeba' (Y. Aharoni).
- Geba is mentioned in the civil war between the tribes of Yisrael and Binyamin (Judges 20, 10; 20, 33).
- Yonatan ben Shaul had a battle victory over the Philistines in Geba (I Samuel 13, 3; 13, 16; 14, 5).
- David routed Philistines from Geba to Gezer (II Samuel 5, 25).
- King Asa conducted building projects in Geba (I Kings 15, 22; II Chronicles 16, 6).
- On their march to Jerusalem, troops from Ashur encamped at Geba (Isaiah 10, 29).
- Geba was (re-) settled during the period of the Return to Zion (Ezra 2, 26; Nehemiah 7, 30; Nehemiah 11, 31; Nehemiah 12, 29).