Gibeon, pool, a city of Benjamin, modern el-Jib; Joshua was deceived by the Gibeonites into making a covenant to protect them. Abner and Joab met near this pool and pitted two groups of twelve men against each other, 2 Samuel 2:1-28, 30.

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