Lebonah

Lebonah appears once in Scripture as a geographic landmark in the strange tribal-recovery episode of Judges 21. After Israel had nearly wiped out the tribe of Benjamin in the civil war over the Levite's concubine at Gibeah, the surviving six hundred Benjamite warriors needed wives. Israel forbade giving them daughters, so the elders devised a workaround: "Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah" (Judges 21:19). The Benjamites ambushed and carried off the dancing daughters, preserving the twelve-tribe structure.