גִּבְעוֹן

Joshua 9:3 גִבְע֜וֹן Gibeon

But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

Here: A major town on the central hill country plateau, about 9 km (6 miles) northwest of Jerusalem. The name is built on gibʿâ, 'hill.' The text later calls it a 'great city, like one of the royal cities' (10:2) and identifies its people as Hivites (9:7).

Joshua 9:17 גִּבְע֣וֹן [were] Gibeon

So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

Here: The leading town of the four. Its name probably comes from givʿah, "hill". It is identified with modern el-Jib, about 9 km (6 miles) northwest of Jerusalem. Joshua 10:2 calls it "a great city, like one of the royal cities".

Joshua 10:1 גִבְעוֹן֙ Gibeon

Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.

Joshua 10:2 גִּבְע֔וֹן Gibeon

So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Here: A city about 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Jerusalem, modern el-Jib, and head of a four-town league (Josh 9:17). The name is probably related to givʿah, 'hill'.

Joshua 10:4 גִּבְע֑וֹן Gibeon

“Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

Joshua 10:5 גִּבְע֔וֹן Gibeon

So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.

Joshua 10:6 גִבְע֨וֹן Gibeon

Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”

Here: A major Hivite town about 9–10 km northwest of Jerusalem (modern el-Jib). Its people had just tricked Israel into a sworn treaty (Josh 9).

Joshua 10:10 בְּגִבְע֑וֹן at Gibeon

And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

Here: 'At Gibeon.' This is the besieged city of Israel's new treaty partners (ch. 9), on the central Benjamin plateau. The first and heaviest blow lands where the enemy kings were camped.

Joshua 10:12 בְּגִבְע֣וֹן at Gibeon

On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

Here: 'In', 'at' or 'over' Gibeon, the city on the central plateau whose rescue started the battle. It places the sun over the eastern end of the battlefield.

Joshua 10:41 גִּבְעֽוֹן׃ Gibeon

Joshua conquered the area from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

Here: The northern limit. Gibeon is the town whose treaty with Israel (ch. 9) and siege by five kings (10:1–10) started the whole campaign. The summary ends where the story began.

Joshua 11:19 גִבְע֑וֹן Gibeon

No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

Here: The leading town of a four-city league (9:17) about 9 km northwest of Jerusalem, whose treaty with Israel is told in Joshua 9.

Joshua 18:25 גִּבְע֥וֹן Gibeon

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

Joshua 21:17 גִּבְע֖וֹן Gibeon

And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them Gibeon, Geba,

Here: Gibeon was a large city, probably named from *gevaʿ*, "hill." It is modern el-Jib, about 9 km (6 miles) northwest of Jerusalem. Its Hivite inhabitants had tricked Israel into making a treaty with them (Joshua 9). It now becomes a city where priests live.

2 Samuel 2:12 גִּבְעֽוֹנָה׃ Gibeon towards

One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

2 Samuel 2:13 גִּבְע֖וֹן Gibeon

So Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two groups took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.

2 Samuel 2:16 בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ [is] in Gibeon

Then each man grabbed his opponent by the head and thrust his sword into his opponent’s side, and they all fell together. So this place, which is in Gibeon, is called Helkath-hazzurim.

2 Samuel 2:24 גִּבְעֽוֹן׃ Gibeon

But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

2 Samuel 3:30 בְּגִבְע֖וֹן at Gibeon

(Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)

2 Samuel 20:8 בְּגִבְע֔וֹן [is] in Gibeon

And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.

1 Kings 3:4 גִּבְעֹ֙נָה֙ Gibeon towards

Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

Here: "To Gibeon". The ending -ah means "toward". Gibeon was a town about 9–10 km (6 miles) northwest of Jerusalem. Its name comes from the root for "hill" (givʿah).

1 Kings 3:5 בְּגִבְע֗וֹן at Gibeon

One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

Here: The verse opens with the place, which puts weight on it: this happened at Gibeon, the 'great high place' of v. 4, not in Jerusalem. The name is built on givʿah, 'hill'.

1 Kings 9:2 בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ at Gibeon

the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

1 Chronicles 8:29 וּבְגִבְע֥וֹן גִבְע֑וֹן and in Gibeon, Gibeon

Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah,

1 Chronicles 9:35 וּבְגִבְע֛וֹן גִבְע֖וֹן and in Gibeon, Gibeon

Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah.

1 Chronicles 14:16 מִגִּבְע֖וֹן from Gibeon

So David did as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.

1 Chronicles 16:39 בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ [was] in Gibeon

And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

1 Chronicles 21:29 בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ at Gibeon

For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

2 Chronicles 1:3 בְּגִבְע֑וֹן [was] at Gibeon

And Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon because it was the location of God’s Tent of Meeting, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 1:13 בְּגִבְעוֹן֙ [was] at Gibeon

So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

Nehemiah 3:7 גִבְע֖וֹן Gibeon

Next to them, repairs were made by Melatiah the Gibeonite, Jadon the Meronothite, and the men of Gibeon and Mizpah, who were under the authority of the governor of the region west of the Euphrates.

Nehemiah 7:25 גִבְע֖וֹן Gibeon

the descendants of Gibeon, 95;

Isaiah 28:21 בְּגִבְע֣וֹן in Gibeon

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

Here: A town north of Jerusalem. It recalls Joshua's battle, where Yahweh threw the Amorites into panic and killed more of them with hailstones than Israel did with the sword (Joshua 10:10–14). It may also recall David's second Philistine victory "from Gibeon to Gezer" (1 Chronicles 14:16).

Jeremiah 28:1 מִגִּבְעוֹן֙ [was] from Gibeon

In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:

Jeremiah 41:12 בְּגִבְעֽוֹן׃ [is] in Gibeon

they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. And they found him near the great pool in Gibeon.

Here: 'In Gibeon.' A town in Benjamin, modern el-Jib, a few miles from Mizpah. It was famous for its water installations and for an earlier fight between Israelites at its pool.

Jeremiah 41:16 מִגִּבְעֽוֹן׃ from Gibeon

Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.