or three quarters of a mile English from the walls of Jerusalem, and 100 yards east of the bridge
over the Kedron. There was a “garden,” or rather orchard, attached to it, to which the olive, fig and
pomegranate doubtless invited resort by their hospitable shade. And we know from the evangelists
(Luke 22:39) And (John 18:2) that our Lord ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. But
Gethsemane has not come down to us as a scene of mirth; its inexhaustible associations are the
offspring of a single event—the agony of the Son of God on the evening preceding his passion. A
garden, with eight venerable olive trees, and a grotto to the north detached from it, and in closer
connection with the church of the sepulchre of the Virgin, are pointed out as the Gethsemane.
Against the contemporary antiquity of the olive trees it has been urged that Titus cut down all the
trees about Jerusalem. The probability would seem to be that they were planted by Christian hands
to mark the spot unless, like the sacred olive of the Acropolis, they may have reproduced themselves.
Geuel
(majesty of God), son of Machi the Gadite spy. (Numbers 13:15) (B.C 1490.)
Gezer
(a precipice), an ancient city of Canaan, whose king, Hiram or Elam, coming to the assistance
of Lachish, was killed with all his people by Joshua. (Joshua 10:33; 12:12) It formed one of the
landmarks on the north boundary of Ephraim, between the lower Beth-horon and the Mediterranean,
(Joshua 16:3) the western limit of the tribe (1 Chronicles 7:28) It was allotted with its suburbs to
the Kohathite Levites, (Joshua 21:21; 1 Chronicles 6:67) but the original inhabitants were not
dispossessed, (Judges 1:29) and even down to the reign of Solomon the Canaanites were still
dwelling there, and paying tribute to Israel (1 Kings 9:16) It was burned by Pharaoh in Solomon’s
time, (1 Kings 9:15-17) and given to Solomon’s Egyptian wife, and rebuilt by him.
Gezrites The
The word which the Jewish critics have substituted in the margin of the Bible for the ancient
reading, “the Gerizite.” (1 Samuel 27:8) [Gerizites, THE]
Giah
(a waterfall), a place named only in (2 Samuel 2:24) to designate the position of the hill Ammah.
Giants
men of extraordinary size or height.
•They are first spoken of in (Genesis 6:4) under the name Nephilim. We are told in (Genesis 6:1-4)
that “there were Nephilim in the earth,” and that afterwards the “sons of God” mingling with the
beautiful “daughters of mens produced a race of violent and insolent Gibborim (Authorized Version
“mighty men”).
•The Rephalim, a name which frequently occurs. The earliest mention of them is the record of their
defeat by Chedorlaomer and some allied kings at Ashteroth Karnaim. The “valley of Rephaim,”
(2 Samuel 5:18; 1 Chronicles 11:15; Isaiah 17:5) a rich valley southwest of Jerusalem, derived its
name from them. They were probably an aboriginal people of which the EMIM, Anakim and
Zuzim, The [which see] were branches. [See also Goliath]
Gibbar
(gigantic), the father of some who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon. (Ezra 2:20)
Gibbethon
(a hill), a town allotted to the tribe of Dan, (Joshua 19:44) and afterwards given with its “suburbs”
to the Kohathite Levites. ch. (Joshua 21:23)
Gibea
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