Gurbaal

Gurbaal ("dwelling of Baal") was a southern frontier site where King Uzziah of Judah won a notable victory over the desert raiders during his long and successful reign: "And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims" (2 Chronicles 26:7). Uzziah's military campaigns expanded Judah's southern reach, allowing him to refortify the southern frontier and reopen the Red Sea port of Elath. The exact site of Gurbaal is uncertain but lay somewhere in the desert margin between Judah and the Arabian tribes, possibly identified with one of the oases in the central Negev or northern Sinai.