GIBEON, an ancient city of Palestine, whose inhabitants successfully tricked Joshua into a truce (Josh. ix.). David's select warriors fought with the chosen of Ishbosheth at the "Pool of Gibeon" (2 Sam. ii.), and here Joab treacherously slew Amasa (2 Sam. xx.). But Gibeon was more renowned for its "high place" which the youthful King Solomon made it one of his first cares to visit, and where for a time the tabernacle was deposited. Gibeon is most probably represented to-day by El-Jib, where we seem to have an echo, if faint and uncertain, of the ancient name. El-Jib is a small village on an isolated hill, 5m. N.W. of Jerusalem, and is surrounded by olive groves. Here are to be found springs and the remains of a reservoir.
Alt would identify Gibeon with Tell en-Nasbeh.
See P. Lohmann, Archaologisches von en-nebi Samwil: Zeitschr. Deutsch. Pal. Vereins, 41 (1918) 117 seq.; H. L. Vincent, Neby Sam ouil: Revue Biblique, 31 (1922) 36o seq.; G. Dalman, Nochmals Gibeon: Paliistina Jahrbuch, 22 (1926) 14o seq.; A. Alt, Gibeon and Beeroth: Palestina Jahrbuch, 22 (1926) 11 seq. (E. Ro.)