Bible Location
Meaning: revolution of inquiry · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Gilboa is the mountain range associated with Saul's defeat and death in battle against the Philistines. It is important because the shorter form preserves the same tragic landscape remembered under Mount Gilboa. First appears in 1 Sam 28:4.1
Place meaning
revolution of inquiry
Coordinates
32.52, 35.40
First appears
1 Sam 28:4
AI summary: Gilboa on this page belongs to the same mournful tradition as Mount Gilboa. It is remembered as the battlefield of Saul's collapse, the death of Jonathan, and the lament that followed. The cross references present Gilboa as a mountain-range name carrying the memory of national loss and royal failure.1
Place meaning
revolution of inquiry
Latitude
32.52
Longitude
35.40
Bible references
3
Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua’, memorable as the scene of Saul’s disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand (1 Sam. 28:4; 31:1-8; 2 Sam. 1:6-21; 21:12; 1 Chr. 10:1, 8). It was a low barren range of mountains bounding the valley of Esdraelon (Jezreel) on the east, between it and the Jordan valley. When the tidings of this defeat were conveyed to David, he gave utterance to those pathetic words in the “Song of the Bow” (2 Sam. 1:19-27). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.