Gibeah

The first 10 of 41 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Joshua

• Joshua 18:28

  Zelah, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim —fourteen cities, along with their villages. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

Judges

• Judges 19:12

  But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

• Judges 19:13

  He continued, “Come, let us try to reach one of these towns to spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

• Judges 19:14

  So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.

• Judges 19:15

  They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.

• Judges 19:16

  That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.

• Judges 20:4

  So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

• Judges 20:5

  And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

• Judges 20:9

  Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as the lot dictates.

• Judges 20:10

  We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.