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82 and Tekoah. Modern maps place it in the tribe of Simeon, east of Gaza. There was a famous rock of this name, probably near this city.—(Judg. xv. 8, 11.)

The tower of was the place to which Jacob removed, after the death of Rachel.—(Gen. xxxv. 21.) It is called, also, the "tower of the flocks."—(Micah iv. 8.) It was a place of fine pasturage, about a mile from Bethlehem, supposed to be the very spot on which the Ethiopian shepherds received the announcement of the birth of Christ. It is very remarkable that the Targum of Jonathan calls it "the place where King Messiah shall be revealed in the end of days."

. (Josh. x. 2; 1 Chron. xvi. 39.) A great city in Benjamin, five to seven miles northerly of Jerusalem, inhabited by Hivites, who secured the protection and alliance of Joshua by stratagem, (Josh. ix. 4—5,) and were consequently attacked by the five Canaanitish kings, but delivered by the aid of the Israelites.—(Josh. x. 10; Isa. xxviii. 21.) In the close of David's and beginning of Solomon's reign, the sanctuary was there.—(1 Chron. xvi. 39, 40; xxi. 29.)

. (1 Sam. xiii. 2.) A city a few miles north of Jerusalem, called Gibeah of [the children of] Benjamin, (2 Sam. xxiii. 29,) in distinction from one in Judah—(Josh. xv. 57.) It was also called Gibeah of Saul, (2 Sam. xxi. 6,) because it was his birth-place and residence.—(1 Sam. x. 26; Isa. x. 29.) Its inhabitants were eminently wicked, as they evinced by their conduct, recorded in Judg. xix. 30, to which Hosea refers as proverbial.—(Hos ix. 9; x. 9.) The city was terribly destroyed.—(Judg. xx. 46.)

, (2 Kings xxiii. 8,) called also Geba of Benjamin, (Josh. xxi. 17; 1 Kings xv 22,) probably to distinguish it from another town of the same name, was one of the most northerly towns of Judea. Hence the expressions in 2 Kings xxiii 8, and Zech. xiv 10, denote the length of the land. It was in the vicinity of this place that the Philistines were defeated by David's army—(2 Sam. v 25.)

. (2 Kings xiv 25.) A city in the tribe of Zebulon, and probably in the land of Hepher.—(1