Where was Jabesh-gilead?

A town on the east of Jordan, on the top of one of the green hills of Gilead, within the limits of the half tribe of Manasseh, and in full view of Beth-shan. Modern identification: Tell el Maqlub.

Jabesh-gilead is represented in the local geography layer as Tell el Maqlub. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Judges 21:8 and is mentioned across 4 books, with 20 verse references collected into the glossary index.