Geba
Where Geba sits on the map, and the 14 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Jaba
- Coordinates
- 31.8575, 35.2611
- Mentions
- 14 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
14 verses, in biblical order.
Joshua
- Joshua 21:17
Then, from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, he gave Gibeon, and Geba,
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 13:3
And Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines, which was in Gibeah. And when the Philistines had heard about it, Saul sounded the trumpet over all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews listen.”
- 1 Samuel 13:4
And all of Israel heard this report, that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines. And Israel raised himself up against the Philistines. Then the people cried out to Saul at Gilgal.
- 1 Samuel 13:16
And Saul, and his son Jonathan, and the people who had been found to be with them, were at Gibeah of Benjamin. But the Philistines had settled in at Michmash.
- 1 Samuel 14:5
One boulder projected toward the north, opposite Michmash, and the other toward the south, opposite Gibeah.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 15:22
Then king Asa sent an announcement to all of Judah, saying, “Let no one be excused.” And they took away the stones from Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had fortified it. And from these things, king Asa built up Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 6:60
And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its suburbs, and Alemeth with its suburbs, as well as Anathoth with its suburbs. All the cities throughout their kindred were thirteen.
- 1 Chronicles 8:6
These are the sons of Ehud, leaders of the kindred living in Geba, who were moved away to Manahath.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 16:6
Then king Asa took all of Judah, and they carried away from Ramah the stones and the wood that Baasha had prepared for the things to be built. And he built up Gibeah and Mizpah with them.
Ezra
- Ezra 2:26
The sons of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 7:30
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
- Nehemiah 11:31
But the sons of Benjamin lived from Geba, at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel and in its daughter villages,
- Nehemiah 12:29
and from the house of Gilgal, and from the regions of Geba and Azmaveth. For the singing men had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 10:29
They have passed through in haste; Geba is our seat; Ramah was stupefied; Gibeah of Saul fled.