. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . N. W. View of el-Jib and Neby Samwil.—Trom a photograph hy Graham.—(AyTe.)El-Jib (Gibeon) is conspicuous on the hill in front: Neby Samwil (the traditional Ramah of Samuel or Eainathaim-zopUim) is marked by the ruined mosque on the hill at the extreme right. ness of Gibeon (2 Sam. ii. 24)—i. e. the waste pas-ture-grounds (Desert 2)—must have been to the E.,beyond the circle or suburb of cultivated fields, andtoward the neighboring swells, which bear thenames of Jedireh and Mr Nebattah. Its distancefrom Jerusalem by the main road is as nearly aspossib
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . N. W. View of el-Jib and Neby Samwil.—Trom a photograph hy Graham.—(AyTe.)El-Jib (Gibeon) is conspicuous on the hill in front: Neby Samwil (the traditional Ramah of Samuel or Eainathaim-zopUim) is marked by the ruined mosque on the hill at the extreme right. ness of Gibeon (2 Sam. ii. 24)—i. e. the waste pas-ture-grounds (Desert 2)—must have been to the E.,beyond the circle or suburb of cultivated fields, andtoward the neighboring swells, which bear thenames of Jedireh and Mr Nebattah. Its distancefrom Jerusalem by the main road is as nearly aspossible six and a half miles; but there is a moredirect road reducing it to five miles. Gibe-on-ites (fr. Heb.), the = the people of Gib-eon, and perhaps also of the three cities associatedwith Gibeon (Josh. ix. 17)—Hivites; and who, onthe discovery of the stratagem by which they hadobtained the protection of the Israelites, were con-demned to be perpetual bondmen, hewers of woodand drawers of water for the congregation, and forthe ho
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