Biblical place
Where was Mount Gilboa?
Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Mount Gilboa.
First appears in 1 Samuel 28:4 · 3 books · 5 chapters
Overview
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. Modern identification: Mount Gilboa.
Mount Gilboa is represented in the local geography layer as Mount Gilboa. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in 1 Samuel 28:4 and is mentioned across 3 books, with 8 verse references collected into the glossary index.
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Where it sits on the map
How to get to Mount Gilboa today
Find the traditionally identified site on a modern map.
Mount Gilboa is a landmark rather than a city center, so the map is meant to place you in the right mountain zone before you continue into more specific route planning.
Mount Gilboa is mapped here at the commonly cited modern identification.
This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Borders, permits, local access, and the exact identification of biblical landscapes can change.
Key passages
Appears in
2 chapters · 3 verse mentions
2 chapters · 3 verse mentions
1 chapter · 2 verse mentions