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GEBA.
period of Saul, Geba is mentioned. When Isaiah describes the advance of Sennacherib upon
Jerusalem, we read, " At Michmash he hath laid up his carriages : they have gone over the
passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba" (ch. x. 28), i.e. "the carriages," or heavy
baggage, could not be got across the ravine between
Michmash and Geba, they are left behind, and the lightly
equipped portion of the army bivouac—" take up their
lodging"—at Geba, on the opposite side, having had a
toilsome climb across. When we stand on the edge of
the cliff of Geba, and remember how this ravine was the
natural frontier-line between the kingdoms of Judah and
Israel, we can well understand the care which King Asa
took to dismantle Ramah, and to employ all the resources of his kingdom in the building and
fortification of Geba. To what it has fallen to-day the illustration tells us (see page 183).
There is indeed an old dilapidated castle, the fragment of a solid square tower, and a few
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period of Saul, Geba is mentioned. When Isaiah describes the advance of Sennacherib upon
Jerusalem, we read, " At Michmash he hath laid up his carriages : they have gone over the
passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba" (ch. x. 28), i.e. "the carriages," or heavy
baggage, could not be got across the ravine between
Michmash and Geba, they are left behind, and the lightly
equipped portion of the army bivouac—" take up their
lodging"—at Geba, on the opposite side, having had a
toilsome climb across. When we stand on the edge of
the cliff of Geba, and remember how this ravine was the
natural frontier-line between the kingdoms of Judah and
Israel, we can well understand the care which King Asa
took to dismantle Ramah, and to employ all the resources of his kingdom in the building and
fortification of Geba. To what it has fallen to-day the illustration tells us (see page 183).
There is indeed an old dilapidated castle, the fragment of a solid square tower, and a few
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