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Gibeon (plaats)

- - , Algemeen, , Gabaon - (al-Jib)
Eusebius, Onomasticon 66:11-16 (ca. 295 A.D.); Jerome 67:10-15 (ca. 390 A.D.)
Gabaon (Jos 9:3-17), whence the Gibeonites came as supplicants to Joshua. This was once a great city and a capital of the Hivites, and fell into the lot of Benjamin. And now there is a village of this name at about four miles from Bethel to the west, near Rama and Rem-mon, set apart for the Levites. Solomon offered a sacrifice there and was granted an oracle.
Hieronymus, Ep.108 (Peregrinatio Paulae) 8 (385 A.D.)
Then, turning back along the way she had come, she reached Nicopolis From this she passed on and climbed to Lower and Upper Beth-horon, cities which were founded by Solomon (2Chr 8:5), but later destroyed in the disasters of war; seeing on her right Aijalon and Gibeon, where Joshua the son of Nun fought against the five kings, and uttered his command to the sun and moon; and condemned the Gibeonites to become drawers of water and hewers of wood because of the deception by which they tricked him when they asked to become allies.