Bible Location
Meaning: he that rejoices; he that overturns · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Giloh was a Judahite hill-country town best known as the home of Ahithophel. It is important because its association with David's betrayer gives it a distinctive role in the Absalom crisis. First appears in Josh 15:51.1
AI summary: Giloh matters because place and person are tightly linked there. Ahithophel's origin from Giloh gives the town a memorable though tragic place in the story of David's betrayal and political collapse. The cross references present Giloh as a hill-town overshadowed by treachery in David's court.1
Exile, a city in the south-west part of the hill-country of Judah (Josh. 15:51). It was the native place or residence of the traitor Ahithophel “the Gilonite” (Josh. 15:51; 2 Sam. 15:12), and where he committed suicide (17:23). It has been identified with Kurbet Jala, about 7 miles north of Hebron. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.