gibeon

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Ancient city of Canaan. It is located north of Jerusalem at modern Al-Jb in the West Bank. According to the Bible, its inhabitants made an alliance with the Israelite military leader Joshua during his conquest of Canaan but were instead made slaves. Excavations in 1956 by a U.S. expedition revealed that the site had been occupied during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages and in the latter part of the Late Bronze Age, just before Joshua's conquest of Canaan; the town then was a dependency of Jerusalem and was probably not fortified
A village north of Jerusalem which tricked Joshua and the Israelites into making a treaty with them See Chapter 6
hill-city, "one of the royal cities, greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty" (Josh 10: 2) Its inhabitants were Hivites (11: 19) It lay within the territory of Benjamin, and became a priest-city (18: 25; 21: 17) Here the tabernacle was set up after the destruction of Nob, and here it remained many years till the temple was built by Solomon It is represented by the modern el-Jib, to the south-west of Ai, and about 5 1/2 miles north-north-west of Jerusalem