Gilboa: Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua', memorable as the
scene of Saul's disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his
three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand
(1 Samuel 28:4)
(1SA 31:1-8; 2 Samuel 1:6-21; 21:12; 1 Chronicles 10:1,8) It was a low barren range of
mountains bounding the valley of Esdraelon (Jezreel) on the east,
between it and the Jordan valley. When the tidings of this defeat
were conveyed to David, he gave utterance to those pathetic words in
the "Song of the Bow"
(2 Samuel 1:19-27)
