Gibeah

1 Samuel

The Day Saul Became King for Real

An Ammonite king threatens to gouge out the eyes of an entire city. The news reaches Saul, who goes from plowing a field to rallying an army in one afternoon. What follows is a decisive victory, a surprising act of mercy, and the moment Israel finally gets behind their king.

1 Samuel

The Moment a Kingdom Was Lost

Gibeah is Saul's own hometown, where he stations Jonathan with a thousand troops — a politically and personally significant posting for the king's son.

1 Samuel

The Day Obedience Wasn't Enough

Gibeah is Saul's hometown and royal seat, where he returns after Samuel's departure — a king going home to a throne that God has already spiritually vacated.

1 Samuel

The Cave Where Outcasts Became an Army

Gibeah is Saul's seat of power where the scene of his unraveling plays out — a hilltop that should represent royal authority but instead becomes the stage for paranoid accusation.

1 Samuel

The Chase That God Kept Redirecting

Gibeah is Saul's home base where the Ziphite informants deliver their report — the royal seat from which Saul orchestrates his increasingly obsessive hunt for David.

1 Samuel

The Night David Could Have Ended It All

Gibeah is where Saul receives the Ziphites' intelligence report and launches his military expedition, serving as the staging point for his third organized campaign against David.

2 Samuel

The Last Words and the Men Who Stayed

Gibeah is listed as the hometown of Ittai son of Ribai — a detail that would have resonated with ancient readers, since this was Saul's hometown, yet a man from there loyally served David.

1 Chronicles

The King and the Warriors Who Made It Happen

Gibeah appears here as the hometown of Ithai, one of David's warriors from the tribe of Benjamin — the same city that was Saul's capital, making this warrior's presence on David's roster a small emblem of national reconciliation.

1 Chronicles

The Army That Chose a Fugitive

Gibeah is significant here as Saul's own hometown — the detail that Ahiezer and Joash come from there underscores how deeply David's support has penetrated even Saul's home base.

2 Chronicles

The Speech Before the Battle

Gibeah is identified as the hometown of Abijah's maternal grandfather Uriel, providing genealogical context for the new king's family origins in the hill country of Benjamin.

Hosea

The Party's Over

Gibeah is cited as the benchmark for Israel's current depravity — a city infamous for gang violence and moral collapse in the book of Judges, now used as a measuring stick for how bad things have gotten again.

Hosea

The Vine That Forgot Who Planted It

Gibeah is invoked as the symbolic starting point of Israel's long moral decline — a city associated with horrific violence in the era of the Judges, representing a pattern that has never truly been addressed.