One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Geba. Every Geba in the Bible
place
Geba
גֶּ֫בַע
Geba, a Levitical city in the territory of Benjamin, was located on the northern border of the kingdom of Judah (Joshua 18:24; 1Ki.15.22).
- verses
- 16
- first named
- Joshua 18:24
- last named
- Zechariah 14:10
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.86°N · 35.26°E
Jaba (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 5 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Geba in the text
Geba was a city located in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin, situated on the northern border of the kingdom of Judah. It was assigned to the Levites as one of their cities (Joshua 21:17; 1Ch.6.60).
Geba is first mentioned in the Bible during the time of King Saul, when Jonathan, Saul's son, attacked a Philistine garrison stationed there (1Sa.13.3). Later, during the reign of King Asa of Judah, Geba was fortified using materials from Ramah, which Asa had destroyed (1Ki.15.22; 2Ch.16.6).
After the Babylonian exile, Geba was one of the cities resettled by the returning Israelites (Ezra 2:26; Nehemiah 7:30). It was also mentioned as a city inhabited by the Levites and singers (Nehemiah 11:31; 12:29).
The prophet Isaiah mentions Geba in a prophecy concerning the advance of the Assyrian army towards Jerusalem (Isaiah 10:29). In a future prophecy, Zechariah declares that the land will be inhabited from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, indicating the extent of the restored land (Zechariah 14:10).
Geba's location on the northern border of Judah made it a strategically important city throughout Israel's history, serving as a defensive outpost and a Levitical city.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Geba is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
16 verses across 10 of 66 books; 56 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (2), 1 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (3), Isaiah (1) and Zechariah (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 16, across 10 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
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