A Canaanite City
Joshua 9:3 -
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and
to Ai,
Joshua 9:17 -
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third
day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and
Kirjathjearim.
Joshua 10:2 -
That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city, as one of the royal
cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all the men thereof [were]
mighty.
The scene of Joshua's victory
Joshua 10:10 -
The LORD confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at
Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them
to Azekah and to Makkedah.
The Gibeon (Horite?) inhabitants remained
Joshua 11:19 -
There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the
Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all [other] they took in battle.
Located in the Territiry of Benjamin
Joshua 18:25 -
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
A Levitical City
Joshua 21:17 -
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her
suburbs,
There was a Pool
2 Samuel 2:13 -
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met
together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of
the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
Jeremiah 41:12 -
Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and found him by the great waters that [are] in Gibeon.
There was a High Place
1 Kings 3:4 -
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high
place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
1 Kings 3:5 -
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask
what I shall give thee.
Nehemiah 3:7 -
And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite,
the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side
the river.
Nehemiah 7:25 -
The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.
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Gibeon Scriptures
2 Samuel 2:13 -
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met
together by the pool of Gibeon:
and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the
other side of the pool.
Joshua 10:12 -
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites
before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand
thou still upon Gibeon;
and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Joshua 10:5 -
Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of
Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered
themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon,
and made war against it.
Isaiah 28:21 -
For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as [in] the
valley of Gibeon,
that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his
strange act.
Jeremiah 28:1 -
And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah
king of Judah, in the fourth year, [and] in the fifth month, [that] Hananiah the
son of Azur the prophet, which [was] of Gibeon,
spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of
all the people, saying,
Joshua 10:1 -
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had
taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king,
so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had
made peace with Israel, and were among them;
Jeremiah 41:16 -
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that
[were] with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after [that] he had slain Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam, [even] mighty men of war, and the women, and the children,
and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
Joshua 21:17 -
And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with
her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
1 Kings 9:2 -
That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him
at Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2:16 -
And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his
fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called
Helkathhazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon.
2 Chronicles 1:3 -
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that [was]
at Gibeon;
for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant
of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
2 Samuel 3:30 -
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother
Asahel at Gibeon in
the battle.
Joshua 9:17 -
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third
day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon,
and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
Joshua 10:6 -
And the men of Gibeon sent
unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants;
come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the
Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
2 Samuel 20:8 -
When they [were] at the great stone which [is] in Gibeon,
Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto
him, and upon it a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath
thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
Joshua 10:10 -
And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great
slaughter at Gibeon,
and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to
Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
1 Kings 3:4 -
And the king went to Gibeon to
sacrifice there; for that [was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings
did Solomon offer upon that altar.
1 Chronicles 21:29 -
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the
altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
Nehemiah 3:7 -
And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite,
and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon,
and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.
Joshua 10:2 -
That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was]
a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai,
and all the men thereof [were] mighty.
Joshua 11:19 -
There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the
Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon:
all [other] they took in battle.
2 Samuel 2:24 -
Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were
come to the hill of Ammah, that [lieth] before Giah by the way of the wilderness
of Gibeon.
2 Chronicles 1:13 -
Then Solomon came [from his journey] to the high place that [was] at Gibeon to
Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over
Israel.
1 Chronicles 16:39 -
And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the
LORD in the high place that [was] at Gibeon,
Joshua 10:4 -
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon:
for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
1 Kings 3:5 -
In Gibeon the
LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall
give thee.
Joshua 10:41 -
And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of
Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
1 Chronicles 14:16 -
David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the
Philistines from Gibeon even
to Gazer.
Jeremiah 41:12 -
Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and found him by the great waters that [are] in Gibeon.
2 Samuel 2:12 -
And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went
out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.