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    Gibeon (Hebrew: גִּבְעוֹן‎, romanized: Giḇəʻōn; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Γαβαων, translit. Gabaōn) was a Canaanite and later an Israelite city, which was located...
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  • Gibeon (Hebrew: גִּבְעוֹן giḇʻôn, giv'ôn) may refer to: Gibeon (ancient city), a Canaanite city north of Jerusalem that was conquered by Joshua Gibeon...
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  • James B. Pritchard (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    identified it as Gibeon by inscriptions on the Al Jib jar handles. He cataloged these in Hebrew Inscriptions and Stamps From Gibeon (1959), which included...
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    The Pool of Gibeon is a site in Gibeon mentioned a number of times in the Hebrew Bible. Archeological evidence locates the historical site of the pool...
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  • Ammah (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    when they were in pursuit of Abner (2 Samuel 2:24). It lay to the east of Gibeon.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication...
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  • Hivites (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible, which assigns to Hivites the towns of Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-Jearim (Joshua 9:17). However, the Septuagint...
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    Giv'at Ze'ev (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    site of the abandoned Jordanian military camp, adjacent to the site of ancient Gibeon. While it lies within the borders of the Matte Binyamin Regional Council...
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    romanized: ʾasdūd) or Azotus (Koinē Greek: Ἄζωτος, romanized: azōtos) was an ancient Levantine metropolis situated at Tel Ashdod, 'Mound of Ashdod', an archaeological...
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    Molten Sea (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    was made of brass or bronze, which Solomon had taken from the captured cities of Hadarezer, the king of Zobah (1 Chronicles 18:8). Ahaz later removed...
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    formed based on the Gibeon-Gibeah plateau and destroyed by Shoshenq I, the biblical Shishak, in the 10th century BCE, a return to small city-states was prevalent...
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    Al Jib (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    Samwil to the south. Al-Jib is identified with the ancient Canannite and Israelite city of Gibeon (from Biblical Hebrew: gēb “pit, ditch, trench"). The...
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    Ezra 7 (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; G {\displaystyle...
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  • by Pilate Geba (city), in Benjamin Giv'at, Giv'a, Hebrew for 'hill': part of biblical and modern Israeli toponyms Gibeon (ancient city), Canaanite, then...
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    Al Jib jar handles (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    .. identification of Gibeon with el-Jib has been made certain... The unusual circumstance of finding the ancient name of a city in the debris of occupation...
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  • Zur (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    the servers at the temple, 1 Chronicles 9:35–9:36: And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah: And his firstborn...
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    Tyre, Lebanon (redirect from Ancient tyre)
    Cadmus and Phoenix, as well as Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to...
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    Colin Humphreys (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    astronomical explanation for the biblical story of the sun standing still over Gibeon during the Israelites' victorious battle against the Amorites (Joshua 10:12)...
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    2 Samuel 4 (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    {\mathfrak {G}}} A; 5th century). Jezreel Bethlehem Gibeon Beeroth Mahanaim Arabah Hebron Beeroth Gibeon Hebron Jezreel Ziklag The narrative of David's reign...
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    Canaan (redirect from Ancient Canaan)
    Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. Canaan had significant geopolitical...
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    שִׁלֹה, שִׁלוֹ ,שִׁילֹה, שִׁילוֹ, romanized: Šīlō) was an ancient city and sanctuary in ancient Israel located in the West Bank, Palestine. According to...
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    Giv'on HaHadasha (category Gibeon (ancient city))
    Giv'on HaHadashah (Hebrew: גִּבְעוֹן הַחֲדָשָׁה, lit. New Gibeon) is an Israel settlement in the West Bank, built over land expropriated from the neighboring...
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  • Arameans (redirect from Ancient Arameans)
    of the 1st millennium BCE, several Aramean-ruled city-states were established throughout the ancient Near East. The most notable was Aram-Damascus which...
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  • Phoenicia (redirect from Ancient Phoenicia)
    The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern...
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  • Kiriath-Jearim – City in Gibeon Kish – Mesopotamian City State Kush/Cush – in northeast Africa Lachish Laish Laodicea Larsa – Mesopotamian city Lebanon Lehi...
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    structures. The ancient part of the Old City is about 1.6 square kilometres (0.62 sq mi). There were seven historic gates to the Old City: Bab Asqalan (Gate...
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  • (1995a). "Karkamish and Karatepe: Neo-Hittite City-States in North Syria". Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. Vol. 2. New York: Simon & Schuster...
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    In the Hebrew Bible, the Levitical cities were 48 cities in ancient Israel set aside for the tribe of Levi, who were not allocated their own territorial...
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    Ascalon (redirect from Ancient ascalon)
    Latin: Ascalon; Arabic: عَسْقَلَان, romanized: ʿAsqalān) was an ancient Near East port city on the Mediterranean coast of the southern Levant of high historical...
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    fortified city under Canaanite rule, with massive walls protecting its water system. During the Late Bronze Age, Jerusalem became a vassal of Ancient Egypt...
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  • modern Biddu and Nebi Samwil. The city was part of an Hivite confederacy under the apparent rule of Gibeon, "a royal city" that sued for peace after the...
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