Gilboa

Gilboa
height	508 m
location	Israel
Coordinates	32 ° 26 '2 " N , 35 ° 24' 52" E Coordinates: 32 ° 26 '2 " N , 35 ° 24' 52" E

The Gilboa ( Hebrew גלבוע), also mountains of Gilboa ( Hebrew הר הגלבוע), is a mountain range in northern Israel on the border with the West Bank .

General Information

The mountain range of the Gilboa rises east of the Jezreel plain up to a height of 508 m; it extends in a south-easterly direction for about 20 kilometers. The area around Bet She'an east of the mountain range is already below sea level, so that the absolute height is over 600 m. On the Gilboa there are nature reserves and national parks, including the well-known Gan haSchloscha ("Garden of the Three") or Sachne , where warm springs arise. In total there are about 40 springs at the foot of the Gilboa, some of which are brackish .

Historical meaning

According to the biblical story , King Saul gathered his army to fight the Philistines on the Gilboa. The oracle of the dead of En Dor foretold a defeat that actually occurred: King Saul's sons - including his son Jonathan - fell, he himself threw himself on his sword. According to the biblical accounts, his body was hung up by the Philistines on the city wall of Bet She'an ( 1 Samuel 28-31, specifically: 1 Sam 28.4; 31.1.8; 2 Sam 1.6.21; 21.12; 1Chr 10 , 1.8).

In the year 1260 the Mameluke general Baibars succeeded in repelling invaded Mongols near the mountains of Gilboa and then became sultan of Egypt and Syria himself .

On November 7, 1935, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam and his companions killed the police officer Moshe Rosenfeld on the mountain.

Individual evidence

↑ Ari Shavit : My Promised Land - Triumph and Tragedy of Israel . 1st edition. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10226-8 , pp. 93 (original edition by Spiegel & Grau, New York 2013).

Web links

Commons : Mount Gilboa - collection of images, videos and audio files

Klaus Koenen: Gilboa. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
Immanuel Benzinger : Gelbue 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 968.

[1] Ari Shavit : My Promised Land - Triumph and Tragedy of Israel . 1st edition. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-570-10226-8 , pp. 93 (original edition by Spiegel & Grau, New York 2013).