Gibeon
"A place of Peace".
Inhabitants or natives
The Woman of Joachim who sees her mute son healed. Thus he can be a Levite - The old synagogue leader
Description
"In spring, summer, and autumn, Gabaon, located atop a gently sloping and low hill, isolated in the middle of a very fertile plain, must be a pleasant, airy town, offering a magnificent panorama (Judea). Its white houses are almost hidden in the green of the evergreen trees, of all kinds, mixed with the now leafless trees due to the season, but which in the good season must transform the hill into a cloud of light petals and later into a triumph of fruits. Now, in the grayness of winter, it shows its slopes striped by the leafless vines and the gray olive trees, or occasionally dotted by the orchards stripped to their dark trunks. And yet, it is beautiful and airy, and the eye rests on the slope of the hill and on the plowed plain. Jesus goes toward a large cistern or well that reminds me of that of the Samaritan woman or even En Rogel, or more so the reservoirs near Hebron".[1]The "great waters of Gabaon" are indeed famous.
Significant events
Jesus receives a Man there who is favorable and praises Wisdom[2]. "When the Father lets me find a place of Peace, I rejoice and bless my Father for it, but it is not for that that I have come."[3]
Its name
Gabaon means "high place" - Gibeon - Today El Jib, 9 km north of Jerusalem.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 515 EMV 516 EMV 517
Learn more about this place
From this town, says the "Dictionary of the Bible," came both the best and the worst:
- During the conquest of Canaan, the elders of this city tricked Joshua into making a treaty with them, and as punishment, they were reduced to fetching the Water and cutting wood for the Israelites[4]
- The city was given to Benjamin and set apart for the Levites. Moreover, it is a Benjaminite, Yeiel (Iaihel), the ancestor of Saul, who is given as the "father of Gabaon"[5].
- It is there that the seven sons (or grandsons) of Saul were executed[6].
- It had a high place where the tabernacle and altar were located, before the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Solomon came to worship after his accession to the throne[7].
- The Gabaonites helped Nehemiah rebuild the walls of Jerusalem after the exile[8].
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