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Levitical city in Benjamin. Joshua 21: 17; 2 Sam. 5: 25; 2 Kings 23:
8; 1 Chr. 6: 60; 1 Chr. 8: 6; Neh. 11: 31; Neh. 12: 29; Isa. 10: 29;
Zech. 14: 10. Apparently while Saul was king the Philistines had a garrison there, which Jonathan smote. 1 Sam. 13: 3. The city was built or rebuilt long afterwards by Asa. 1 Kings 15: 22; 2 Chr. 16: 6.
It is called GABA in Joshua 18: 24; Ezra 2: 26; Neh. 7: 30; and
GIBEAH in 1 Sam. 13: 2-16; 1 Sam. 14: 2-16. In 2 Sam. 5: 25 Geba
should probably be read Gibeon: cf. 1 Chr. 14: 16. Identified with
Jeba, .