Category:Gebal

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Gebal - A line (or natural boundary, as a mountain range). (1.) A tract in the land of Edom south of the Dead Sea (Psalms 83:7); now called Djebal. (2.) A Phoenician city, not far from the sea coast, to the north of Beirut (Ezekiel 27:9); called by the Greeks Byblos. Now Jibeil. Mentioned in the Amarna tablets. An important Phoenician text, referring to the temple of Baalath, on a monument of Yehu-melek, its king (probably 600 B.C.), has been discovered.