28 Zela, Haeleph, Jebus[a] (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath[b]—fourteen cities, with their settlements.

This was the inheritance for Benjamin’s descendants by their clans.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:28 Lit Jebusite
  2. 18:28 LXX, Syr read Kiriath-jearim

26 Saul also went to his home in Gibeah,(A) and brave men whose hearts God had touched went with him.

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Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree(A) at the high place. His spear was in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

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Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah,(A)
the trumpet in Ramah;(B)
raise the war cry in Beth-aven:(C)
Look behind you,[a] Benjamin!(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:8 Or We will follow you

They have deeply corrupted themselves(A)
as in the days of Gibeah.(B)
He will remember their iniquity;
he will punish their sins.(C)

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Israel’s Defeat because of Sin

Israel, you have sinned
since the days of Gibeah;(A)
they have taken their stand there.
Will not war against the unjust
overtake them in Gibeah?

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