Gibeah – could be a variation of the Hebrew word of Geba, meaning “hill”, other names include Gibeah of Benjamin and Gibeah of Saul
Tell el Ful – modern name of the Arabic town, meaning “mound of horse beans”
Location
Central Benjamin Plateau
3 miles north of Jerusalem along the Watershed Ridge
2,754 ft. above sea level
Archaeology
1868 - C. Warren went on a two-week excavation
1874 - C.R. Conder described the remains
1922-1923 - W. F. Albright led his first excavation
1933 - Albright returned for a second excavation
1960 - Albright’s work was published
1964 - P.W. Lapp conducted a six-week salvage excavation
Ancient History (History of Ancient Israel and Judah) In compiling the history of ancient Israel and Judah, there are many available sources, including the Jewish Tanakh (the Old Testament) and other Jewish texts such as the Talmud, the Ethiopian book of history known as the Kebra Nagast, the writings of historians such as Nicolaus of Damascus, Artapanas, Philo...
Benjamin allotment - Joshua 18:28
Hometown of Phinehas and the burial place of his father, Eleazer, the son of Aaron - Joshua 24:33
Story of the Levite and his concubine and the Israelite Civil War - Judges 19-21
Israel’s first king, King Saul, reigned from Gibeah for 38 years - 1 Samuel 8-31
Prophetic mention during the period of the Divided Kingdom - Hosea 5:8, 9:9, 10:9; Isaiah 10:29
The 10th Roman Legion camped here in their assault on Jerusalem in 70 A.D. - Josephus, War of the Jews
Modern History
King Hussein of Jordan began construction on his West Bank palace in Tel el Ful, but construction was halted when the Six-Day War broke out. Since Israel won the war King Hussein's palace was never finished and now all that remains is the skeleton of the building.
Gibeah, a variation of the name Geba, is the name of several places in ancient Israel (See History of ancient Israel and Judah), in each case meaning "hill" or "hill-town".
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