Bible Strands
Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Joshua records the final distribution of the Promised Land, listing the cities assigned to the tribe of Benjamin. This verse appears within a continuous geographical inventory marking the completion of the tribal allotments.
The words — The text lists גִּבְע֥וֹן (givʿôn, hill), וְ/הָֽ/רָמָ֖ה (wə-hārāmâ, and the high place), and וּ/בְאֵרֽוֹת (ûvəʾērôṯ, and the wells). These terms function as proper place names within a cadastral catalog rather than descriptive metaphors.
The thread — Gibeon and Beeroth reappear in Joshua 9:17 as the treaty cities of the Gibeonites and in Joshua 10:2 as a fortified center that provoked Israelite military response. The list here grounds those earlier narrative events in the formal land distribution.
Why it lands — The verse demands recognition that covenant promise is realized through concrete territorial boundaries and recorded inheritance. It anchors abstract divine faithfulness in specific locations that later shape Israel’s political and military history.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Cross-references
- Joshua 9:17 So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
- Joshua 7:17 He had the clans of Judah come forward, and the clan of the Zerahites was selected. He had the clan of the Zerahites come forward, and the family of Zabdi was selected.
- Joshua 10:2 So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
- Joshua 15:34 Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
- 1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
- 1 Kings 3:4 Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
- 1 Kings 9:2 the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
- Isaiah 28:21 For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
- Jeremiah 31:15 This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- Matthew 27:57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.