²⁵ Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

¹⁷ The children of Israel traveled, and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

⁵⁷ When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus' disciple came.

¹⁵ Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

²¹ For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

² that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

⁴ The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer on that altar.

⁵ In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you.

¹ Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

³⁴ and Zanoah, and En Gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

² that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men of it were mighty.

¹⁷ and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: