Gibeon
"A place of Peace".
Inhabitants or natives[edit | edit source]
The wife of Joachim who sees her mute son healed. Thus he can be a Levite - The old synagogue leader.
Description[edit | edit source]
"In spring, summer and autumn, Gibeon, built on the top of a pleasant low hill isolated in a very fertile plain, must be a kind of airy town with a beautiful view. Its white houses are almost hidden among the green foliage of perennial trees of all kinds, mingled with trees now laid bare by the season, and in the good season they must change the hill into a cloud of light petals, and later into a glorious display of fruit. Now, in the winter greyness, it shows its slopes lined by bare vines and grey olive-trees, or spotted with the dark trees of bare orchards. And yet the town is beautiful and airy and one’s eyes rest on the slope of the hill and on the ploughed plain. Jesus goes towards a large cistern or well, which reminds me somehow of that of the Samaritan woman, or also of En-Rogel and even more of the reservoirs near Hebron."[1]The "great waters of Gabaon" are indeed famous.
Significant events[edit | edit source]
Jesus receives a man there who is favorable and praises Wisdom.[2]"When the Father makes Me find a peaceful place I enjoy it and bless My Father for it. But I have not come for that."[3]
Its name[edit | edit source]
Gabaon means "high place" - Gibeon - Today El Jib, 9 km north of Jerusalem.
Where is it mentioned in the work?[edit | edit source]
GRM 515 GRM 516 GRM 517
Learn more about this place[edit | edit source]
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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