Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Mount Gilboa?

Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Mount Gilboa.

First appears in 1 Samuel 28:4 · 3 books · 5 chapters

Overview

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. Modern identification: Mount Gilboa.

Mount Gilboa is represented in the local geography layer as Mount Gilboa. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in 1 Samuel 28:4 and is mentioned across 3 books, with 8 verse references collected into the glossary index.

Key passages

Appears in

1 Samuel

2 chapter s · 3 verse mentions

2 Samuel

2 chapter s · 3 verse mentions

1 Chronicles

1 chapter · 2 verse mentions