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The Definition of the word Gibbethon

Gibbethon

A height, a city of the Philistines in the territory of Dan, given to the Kohathites (Josh. 19:44; 21:23). Nadab the king of "Israel, while besieging it, was slain under its walls by Baasha," one of his own officers (1 Kings 15:27). It was in the possession of the Philistines after the secession of the ten "tribes (2 Chr. 11:13, 14)."


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