And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
and Chephar-ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places;
And Chephar-haamonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
Chephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
and Chephar-ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
And Gaba - Supposed to be the same as Gibeah of Saul, a place famous for having given birth to the first king of Israel; and infamous for the shocking act towards the Levite's wife, mentioned Judges 19:16-30, which was the cause of a war in which the tribe of Benjamin was nearly exterminated. Judges 20:29-48.
Gaba - This name, like Gibeah, Gibeon, etc. Joshua 9:3, indicates a town placed on a hill, and occurs repeatedly in various forms in the topography of Palestine. Gaba is the Gibeah (if 1 Samuel 13:15-16; 1 Samuel 14:5, where the Hebrew has גבע Geba‛, which is undoubtedly the correct reading throughout. The city was one of those assigned to the Levites Joshua 21:17, and lay on the northern border of Judah. It is identified with the modern "Jeba," lying on the side of a deep ravine opposite to Michmash ("Mukhmas"). The famous "Gibeah of Saul," or "Giheah of Benjamin" (the Gibeath of Joshua 18:28) lay at no great distance southwest of Geba, on the high road from Jerusalem to Bethel, and is probably to be looked for in the lofty and isolated "Tulcil-el-Ful."