Then King Asa issued an order to all Judah – no-one was exempt – and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using there. With them King Asa built up Geba in Benjamin, and also Mizpah.
Joshua 21:17 - New International Version (Anglicised) And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them: Gibeon, Geba, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba, American Standard Version (1901) And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs, Common English Bible From the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its pastures, Geba and its pastures, Catholic Public Domain Version Then, from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, he gave Gibeon, and Geba, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and Gabae, |
Then King Asa issued an order to all Judah – no-one was exempt – and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber Baasha had been using there. With them King Asa built up Geba in Benjamin, and also Mizpah.
Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate.
And from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth and Anathoth, together with their pasture-lands. The total number of towns distributed among the Kohathite clans came to thirteen.
These were the descendants of Ehud, who were heads of families of those living in Geba and were deported to Manahath:
from Beth Gilgal, and from the area of Geba and Azmaveth, for the musicians had built villages for themselves around Jerusalem.
They go over the pass, and say, ‘We will camp overnight at Geba.’ Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.
The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up high from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place.
However, when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,