Place
Mount Gilboa
Where Saul and his sons fell before the Philistines and the crown passed, at the cost David lamented: "how are the mighty fallen."
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Where it is
- Region
- Jezreel Valley
- Kind of place
- Mountain
Mount Gilboa in Scripture
5 verses name it — all of them- 1 Samuel 31:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
- 1 Samuel 31:8And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
- 2 Samuel 1:6And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.
- 1 Chronicles 10:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
- 1 Chronicles 10:8And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.