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<p> '''Gibeah''' (''gĭb'e-ah'' ), ''a hill.'' The name of several towns. 1. Gibeah in the hill-country of Judah. &nbsp;Joshua 15:57; now probably Jebah, ten miles north of Hebron. 2. Gibeah of Benjamin, &nbsp;1 Samuel 13:2; first mentioned in &nbsp;Judges 19:1-30; a shameful crime by some of its people nearly destroyed the tribe of Benjamin. &nbsp;Judges 20:1-48; &nbsp;Judges 21:1-25. 3. Gibeah of Saul, probably the same as Gibeah of Benjamin. For notices of Gibeah of Saul, see &nbsp;1 Samuel 10:26; &nbsp;1 Samuel 11:4; &nbsp;1 Samuel 15:34; &nbsp;1 Samuel 22:6; &nbsp;1 Samuel 23:19; &nbsp;Isaiah 10:29, etc. 4 Gibeah in Kirjath-jearim was no doubt a hill in that city, &nbsp;2 Samuel 6:3-4, on which the house of [[Abinadab]] stood, where the ark was left. 5. Gibeah in the field, &nbsp;Judges 20:31; probably the same as Geba. 6. Gibeah-ha-araloth, &nbsp;Joshua 5:3, margin. See Gilgal. </p>