AKA Gibeah of Saul (1 Samuel 11:4)
Saul's signs
Samuel gave the newly anointed Saul 3 signs, one being that he will enter Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines, and immediately meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying. Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon him, and he will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. God will be with him. (1 Samuel 10:1-7)
Comings and goings
When they came to Gibeah, he prophesied with the group of prophets and received the Spirit of the LORD. (1 Samuel 10:8-11)
Saul returned home here after being announced as the king, along with men of valor whose hearts God had touched. (1 Samuel 10:17-27)
Jonathan led a thousand troops at a camp here before defeating a Philistine garrison at Geba. (1 Samuel 13:2-3)
After Saul took the burnt offering and peace offerings into his own hands, the people went from Gilgal to Gibeah to meet the army. (1 Samuel 13:8-15)
A while after Saul disobeyed the LORD's command to kill all the Amalekites, they parted to never see each other again until the day of Saul's death - Saul to Gibeah, and Samuel to Ramah. (1 Samuel 15)
When David had fled and was discovered in the forest of Hereth, Saul criticized his men for betraying him under the tamarisk tree on the height of Gibeah, spear in hand. (1 Samuel 22:6-19)
Saul was at Gibeah when the Ziphites asked him to come down, that they would surrender David from the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, into his hands. (1 Samuel 23:19-24)
Saul was at Gibeah when the Ziphites told him David was hiding on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon. So of course Saul pursued David until time to return home. (1 Samuel 26)
Motivated by a 3-year famine, King David sought to resolve the bloodguilt of the house of Saul against the Gibeonites by giving them 7 of his sons to hang at Gibeah of Saul. Rizpah defended her sons' bodies until David had all Saul's family interred in Kish's tomb. (2 Samuel 21:1-14)
People
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- Migron, the pomegranate cave at Migron