Eba

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Eba [1]

Ge'ba. (a hill). A city of Benjamin, with "suburbs," allotted to the priests.  Joshua 21:17;  1 Chronicles 6:60. It is named amongst the first group of the Benjamite towns - apparently those lying near to and along the north boundary.  Joshua 18:24. Here the name is given as Gaba .

During the wars of the earlier part of the reign of Saul, Geba was held as a garrison by the Philistines,  1 Samuel 13:3, but they were ejected by Jonathan. It is now the modern village of Jeba , which stands picturesquely on the top of its steep terraced hill, six miles north of Jerusalem, on the very edge of the great Wady Suweinit , looking northward to the opposite village of ancient Michmash, which also retains its old name of Mukhmas .

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