Gibbethon
Where Gibbethon sits on the map, and the 5 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Tell Melat
- Coordinates
- 31.8564, 34.8656
- Mentions
- 5 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
5 verses, in biblical order.
Joshua
- Joshua 19:44
Eltekeh, Gibbethon and Baalath,
- Joshua 21:23
and from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon,
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 15:27
Then Baasha, the son of Ahijah, from the house of Issachar, set an ambush against him, and he struck him down at Gibbethon, which is a city of the Philistines. For indeed, Nadab and all of Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
- 1 Kings 16:15
In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, the king of Judah, Zimri reigned for seven days in Tirzah. For the army was besieging Gibbethon, a city of the Philistines.
- 1 Kings 16:17
Therefore, Omri ascended, and all of Israel with him, from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah.