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Gibeah – could be a variation of the Hebrew word meaning “hill,” other names include Gibeah of Benjamin and Gibeah of Saul. The site is believed to be identical to Tell el-Ful meaning “mound of horse beans” in Arabic, a hill next to the modern Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 neighbourhood of Pisgat Ze'ev
Pisgat Ze'ev

Pisgat Ze'ev , is a neighborhood of Israel, with almost 50,000 residents. Building commenced in 1982 on land de facto annexed by Israel east of the green line, and the first families moved in three years later....
.

It is located along the Central Benjamin Plateau
Tribe of Benjamin

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Benjamin was one of the twelve Israelites.Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes after about 1200 BCE, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes....
, 3 miles (4,8 km) north of Jerusalem along the Watershed Ridge at 2,754 ft. (860 m) above sea level.

The site was first excavated in 1868 by Charles Warren
Charles Warren

General Sir Charles Warren, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, Royal Society was an officer in the British Army Royal Engineers, and in later life was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police Service, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders....
, while C.R.






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Gibeah – could be a variation of the Hebrew word meaning “hill,” other names include Gibeah of Benjamin and Gibeah of Saul. The site is believed to be identical to Tell el-Ful meaning “mound of horse beans” in Arabic, a hill next to the modern Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 neighbourhood of Pisgat Ze'ev
Pisgat Ze'ev

Pisgat Ze'ev , is a neighborhood of Israel, with almost 50,000 residents. Building commenced in 1982 on land de facto annexed by Israel east of the green line, and the first families moved in three years later....
.

It is located along the Central Benjamin Plateau
Tribe of Benjamin

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Benjamin was one of the twelve Israelites.Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes after about 1200 BCE, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes....
, 3 miles (4,8 km) north of Jerusalem along the Watershed Ridge at 2,754 ft. (860 m) above sea level.

The site was first excavated in 1868 by Charles Warren
Charles Warren

General Sir Charles Warren, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, Royal Society was an officer in the British Army Royal Engineers, and in later life was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police Service, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders....
, while C.R. Conder described the remains in 1874. William F. Albright
William F. Albright

William Foxwell Albright was an United States archaeology, Bible, linguistics and expert on ceramics . From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the dean of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement....
 led his first excavation from 1922 to 1923, and returned for a second season in 1923. His work was published in 1960. P.W. Lapp conducted a six-week salvage excavation
Rescue archaeology

Rescue archaeology, sometimes called "preventive" or "salvage" archaeology, is archaeological survey and excavation carried out in areas threatened by, or revealed by, construction or other development....
 in 1964.

Ancient History (History of Ancient Israel and Judah
History of ancient Israel and Judah

The history of ancient Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah is known to us essentially from the Hebrew Bible . Certain aspects of that history may also be derived from, elaborated and confirmed by other ancient sources and later classical writings such as the Talmud, the writings of Nicolaus of Damascus, Artapanus of Alexandria, Philo of A...
)
  • Benjamin allotment - Joshua 18:28
  • Awarta
    Awarta

    Awarta is a Palestinian people town located southeast of Nablus, in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,810 inhabitants....
     is the Gibeah of Pinhas and the burial place of his father, Eleazar
    Eleazar

    Eleazar , was a son of Aaron, a Levite Kohen and Kohen Gadol. His wife, a daughter of Putiel, bore him Phinehas. After the death of Nadab and Abihu, he was appointed to the charge of the sanctuary....
    , the son of Aaron
    Aaron

    In the Hebrew Bible, Aaron , or Aaron the Levite , was the brother of Moses. He was the great-grandson of Levi and represented the priestly functions of his tribe, becoming the first Kohen Gadol of the Hebrews....
     - Joshua 24:33
  • The Battle of Gibeah
    Battle of Gibeah

    Battle of Gibeah was a biblical battle which could be considered as the only Israelites Civil War . The battle was triggered in response to an incident of gross inhospitality on part of the Tribe of Benjamin, in which a concubine belonging to a man from the Tribe of Levi was killed by a rowdy mob....
     - (Israelite Civil War) - Judges 19-21
  • Israel’s first king, King Saul, reigned from Gibeah for 38 years - 1 Samuel 8-31
  • Prophetic mention during the period of the Divided Kingdom - Hosea 5:8, 9:9, 10:9; Isaiah 10:29
  • The 10th Roman Legion camped here in their assault on Jerusalem in 70 A.D. - Josephus, War of the Jews


Modern History
  • King Hussein of Jordan began construction on his West Bank palace in Tel el-Ful, but construction was halted when the Six-Day War
    Six-Day War

    In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
     broke out. Since Israel won the war King Hussein's palace was never finished and now all that remains is the skeleton of the building.

External links

  • AncientSandals.com
  • Pictorial Library of Bible Lands vol. 2
  • .

Books

P. Arnold, Gibeah, Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992). N. Lapp, Tel el-Ful, Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997). L. A. Sinclair, An Archaeological Study of Gibeah (1960). W. F. Albright, The Archeology of Palestine (1971).