Ibleam

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

IBLEAM . A town belonging to West Manasseh (  Joshua 17:11 ,   Judges 1:27 ). It is mentioned also in   2 Kings 9:27 in connexion with the death of king Ahaziah, who fled by the way of Beth-haggan and ‘the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam.’ The Biblical data seem to be well satisfied by the modern ruin Bel‘ ame , some 13 miles E. of N. of Samaria, more than half-way to Jezreel.

In  2 Kings 15:10 (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] ) ‘before the people’ should certainly be emended to ‘in Ibleam.’ Gath-rimmon of   Joshua 21:25 is a scribal error for Ibleam . It is the same place that is called Bileam in   1 Chronicles 6:70 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 17:11 Joshua 21:25 Joshua 21:24 Joshua 21:24  Joshua 21:25 1 Chronicles 6:70  Judges 1:27 2 Kings 9:27 2 Kings 15:10  2 Kings 9:27

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ib'le-am. (Devouring The People). A city of Manasseh, with villages or towns dependent on it.  Judges 1:27. It appears to have been situated in the territory of either Issachar or Asher.  Joshua 17:11. The ascent of Gur was "at Ibleam,"  2 Kings 9:27, somewhere near the present Jenin , probably to the north of it.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A city with dependent villages, belonging to Manasseh, yet situated in Asher or Issachar (probably the latter). (See Gur .) Near Jenin ( Judges 1:27;  Joshua 17:11;  2 Kings 9:27). Perhaps the Bileam of  1 Chronicles 6:70, and Gathrimmon. (See Bileam ; Gathrimmon

Morrish Bible Dictionary

City assigned to Manasseh, but situate in Issachar or Asher.  Joshua 17:11;  Judges 1:27;  2 Kings 9:27 . Identified by some with Yebla, in Issachar, 32 35' N, 35 28' E . See BILEAM.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 17:11 Judges 1:27 1 Chronicles 6:70

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Yibleaim', יַבְלְעָם , People-Waster; Sept. Ι᾿Αβλαάμ , Ι᾿Εβλαάμ [but some codd. occasionally omit]), a city (with suburban towns) within the natural precincts of Issachar, but (with five others) assigned to Manasseh ( Joshua 17:11, where it is mentioned between Beth-shean and Dor), but from which the Israelites were unable to expel the Canaanites ( Judges 1:27, where it is mentioned between Dor and Megiddo); lying near the pass of Gur, in the vicinity of Megiddo, where Jehu slew Ahaziah ( 2 Kings 9:27). It was assigned as a Levitical city to the family of Kohath ( 1 Chronicles 6:70, where it is less correctly called BILEAM and mentioned along with Aner as lying within Manasseh); compare  Joshua 21:25, where it is called Gath-Rimmon (apparently by error; see the Sept., and comp.  1 Chronicles 6:69). According to Schwarz (Palest. p. 148), it is the modern village Jubla, south-west (north-west) of Beth-shean, and about two English miles south of the village Kefrah; but no map has this place, and the indications require a different position. (See Gur). The site is probably represented by that of Jelanseh, a small village about two and a half miles north of Jenin (Robinson, Researches, 3, 161).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ib´lē̇ - am ( יבלעם , yibhle‛ām ); A town in the territory of Issachar which was assigned to Manasseh (  Joshua 17:11 ). This tribe, however, failed to expel the inhabitants, so the Canaanites continued to dwell in that land ( Judges 1:27 ). It was on the route by which Ahaziah fled from Jehu. He was overtaken and mortally wounded "at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam" ( 2 Kings 9:27 ). The name appears as Bileam in  1 Chronicles 6:70; and it probably corresponds to Belmen of Jth. It is now represented by the ruin of Bel‛āmeh on the West of the valley through which the road to the south runs, about half a mile from Jenı̄n . In  2 Kings 15:10 , where it is said that Zechariah the son of Jeroboam was slain by Shallum "before the people," this last phrase, which is awkward in the Hebrew, should be amended to read "in Bileam." Possibly "Gath-rimmon" in  Joshua 21:25 is a clerical error for "Ibleam."