Ezra 2:20

Gibbar Nehemiah 7:25 -Gibeon" (for which our text is probably an early error), the famous scene of Joshua's victory (Joshua, 10), of the battle between David's and Ishbosheth's men (2 Samuel 2), of Joab's murder of Amasa (2 Samuel 20:8), the abode of the tabernacle (1 Kings 3:4; 1Ch 16:39; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 2 Chronicles 1:3), the high-place at which the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream (1 Kings 3:4).

The false prophet Hananiah (Jeremiah 28:1) came from Gibeon. The modern -El-Jib," distant about 5 miles N.W. from Jerusalem, in the territory of Benjamin.