A major town about ten kilometres north-west of Jerusalem, and in 2 Chronicles the site of the tent of meeting Moses made in the wilderness, with Bezalel's bronze altar standing before it — which is how this book explains Solomon sacrificing at a 'high place.' Its people tricked Joshua into a treaty with stale bread and worn sandals (Joshua 9) and were made woodcutters and water-carriers; Saul later broke that treaty, and 2 Samuel 21 records the consequence. Excavated at el-Jib, where jar handles stamped GB'N — Gibeon — confirmed the identification, along with a vast rock-cut pool and water system that matches the 'pool of Gibeon' where Joab's and Abner's men fought (2 Samuel 2).