Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 18:24
And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
24. 10. Chephar-haammonai ] is quite unknown, so also is ii. Ophni; 12. Gaba, or Geba = “height,” “hill,” not the Geba or Gibeah of Saul, is mentioned in 2Ki 23:8; Zec 14:10.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 24. And Gaba] Supposed to be the same as Gibeah of Saul, a place famous for having given birth to the first king of Israel; and infamous for the shocking act towards the Levite’s wife, mentioned Jdg 19:16-30, which was the cause of a war in which the tribe of Benjamin was nearly exterminated. Jdg 20:29-48.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni,…. Of the two first of these no mention is made elsewhere;
and Gaba is the same with Gibeah, a well known place, because of the foul fact committed there, which had like to have been the ruin of this tribe, Jud 19:14; and for being the native place of King Saul, hence called “Gibeah of Saul”, 1Sa 11:4; it was about six or seven miles from Jerusalem, [See comments on Ho 5:8]; twelve cities with their villages; which agrees with the account of them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
24. Ophni is doubtless the Gophna of Josephus, (Wars, Jos 3:3; Jos 3:5,) and is represented in the modern Jifna, three miles northwest of Beth-el. [ Gaba, better spelled Geba, is not to be confounded with Gibeah of Jos 18:28, (as the English version and some interpreters do at 1Sa 13:16, where see note.) It still exists under the scarcely altered name Jeba, on the top of a steep hill between the Wadies Suweinit and Farah, about six miles southeast by south from Beth-el. This height was held by a Philistine garrison in the time of Saul, (1Sa 13:3,) but was taken from them by the daring feat of Jonathan. At a later period it was fortified by Asa, (1Ki 15:22,) and was inhabited again after the captivity. Ezr 2:26.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Ver. 24. Chephar-haammonai The village of Haamonai. Hiller. Onomast. p. 13.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Ophni: Probably the same as Gophna ( being often pronounced as G); which, according to Josephus, was about fifteen miles from Jerusalem, towards Shechem, says Eusebius (Onom. in .)
Gaba: Gaba or Geba, according to Josephus, was not far from Rama, forty stadia from Jerusalem, and, according to Eusebius, five miles from Gophna, towards Shechem. Jos 21:17, Ezr 2:26, Neh 7:30
Reciprocal: 1Sa 13:3 – Geba 1Ki 15:22 – Geba 1Ch 6:60 – Geba 2Ch 16:6 – Geba Neh 11:31 – from Geba Isa 10:29 – Ramah