Place

Gebal

Terrain:: City
Verse mentions:: 3

A Phoenician city, not far from the sea coast, to the north of Beyrout (Ezek. 27:9); called by the Greeks Byblos. Now Jibeil. Mentioned in the Amarna tablets.

An important Phoenician text, referring to the temple of Baalath, on a monument of Yehu-melek, its king (probably B.C. 600), has been discovered.

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Appears in 3

Reference	Verse
1 Kings 5:18	And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
Psalms 83:7	Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Ezekiel 27:9	The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

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