Fausset Bible Dictionary: Gibbethon

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Fausset Bible Dictionary: Gibbethon


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("lofty place".) A town allotted to Dan (), afterwards to the Kohathite Levites (). As bordering on the Philistines, it was soon seized by them, probably when Jeroboam drove all the Levites from northern Israel to Judah. Nadab with all Israel, and afterward Omri, besieged it (; ). Baasha smote Nadab there.