Northern Israel, near the Jezreel Valley · Old Testament · 8 verses
Mount Gilboa is a range of hills on the southeastern edge of the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. It overlooks the plain toward the Jordan. The name appears in 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles in the King James text.
About Mount Gilboa
Mount Gilboa is a range of hills on the southeastern edge of the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. It overlooks the plain toward the Jordan.
Its place in the story
On Mount Gilboa, King Saul and his sons, including Jonathan, fell in battle against the Philistines. David composed a lament over their deaths there. It became a place remembered for Israel's grief.
Mount Gilboa in Scripture (KJV)
“And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.”
“And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.”
“Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.”
“And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:”
Mount Gilboa is a range of hills on the southeastern edge of the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. It overlooks the plain toward the Jordan. The name appears in 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles in the King James text.
What happened at Mount Gilboa?
On Mount Gilboa, King Saul and his sons, including Jonathan, fell in battle against the Philistines. David composed a lament over their deaths there. It became a place remembered for Israel's grief.