Gebal in the Bible

1. A city south of Sidon

Given to Reuben

• Joshua 13:5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

⇒Bible Encyclopedia for GEBAL.

People of, work for Solomon

• 1 Kings 5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

⇒See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Gebal.

Shipbuilders in

• Ezekiel 27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

2. A district near the Dead Sea

• Psalm 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;