Lexicon :: Strong's H1389 - giḇʿâ

“The blessings of your father excel

the blessings of my ancestors[fn]

and[fn] the bounty of the ancient hills.[fn]

May they rest on the head of Joseph,

on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

Moses said to Joshua, “Select some men for us and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with God’s staff in my hand.”

I see them from the top of rocky cliffs,

and I watch them from the hills.

There is a people living alone;

it does not consider itself among the nations.

“Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods ​— ​on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

with the best products of the ancient mountains

and the bounty of the eternal hills;

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeath-haaraloth.[fn]

And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah,[fn] which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the troops who were with him, got up early and camped beside the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them, below the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

So the people of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it to Abinadab’s house on the hill. They consecrated his son Eleazar to take care of it.

“After that you will come to Gibeah of God where there are Philistine garrisons.[fn] When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place prophesying. They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres.

When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Then the Spirit of God came powerfully on him, and he prophesied along with them.

Some Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t it true that David is hiding among us in the strongholds in Horesh on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?

Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah saying, “David is hiding on the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon.”

Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon. David was living in the wilderness and discovered Saul had come there after him.

but Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah, which is opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

They set the ark of God on a new cart and transported it from Abinadab’s house, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio,[fn] sons of Abinadab, were guiding the cart

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Were you the first human ever born,

or were you brought forth before the hills?

The wilderness pastures overflow,

and the hills are robed with joy.

May the mountains bring well-being[fn] to the people

and the hills, righteousness.

The mountains skipped like rams,

the hills, like lambs.

Mountains, that you skipped like rams?

Hills, like lambs?

mountains and all hills,

fruit trees and all cedars,

“Before the mountains were established,

prior to the hills, I was given birth ​—

Listen! My love is approaching.

Look! Here he comes,

leaping over the mountains,

bounding over the hills.

Until the day breaks[fn]

and the shadows flee,

I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh

and the hill of frankincense.

In the last days

the mountain of the LORD’s house will be established

at the top of the mountains

and will be raised above the hills.

All nations will stream to it,

against all the high mountains,

against all the lofty hills,

Today the Assyrians will stand at Nob,

shaking their fists at the mountain of Daughter Zion,

the hill of Jerusalem.

One thousand will flee at the threat of one,

at the threat of five you will flee,

until you remain

like a solitary pole on a mountaintop

or a banner on a hill.

Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall.

For this is what the LORD said to me:

As a lion or young lion growls over its prey

when a band of shepherds is called out against it,

and it is not terrified by their shouting

or subdued by their noise,

so the LORD of Armies will come down

to fight on Mount Zion

and on its hill.

Every valley will be lifted up,

and every mountain and hill will be leveled;

the uneven ground will become smooth

and the rough places, a plain.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand

or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?

Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure

or weighed the mountains on a balance

and the hills on the scales?

See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board,

new, with many teeth.

You will thresh mountains and pulverize them

and make hills into chaff.

“I will lay waste mountains and hills

and dry up all their vegetation.

I will turn rivers into islands

and dry up marshes.

“Though the mountains move

and the hills shake,

my love will not be removed from you

and my covenant of peace will not be shaken,”

says your compassionate LORD.

You will indeed go out with joy

and be peacefully guided;

the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,

and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

“for your iniquities and the iniquities

of your[fn] ancestors together,”

says the LORD.

“Because they burned incense on the mountains

and reproached me on the hills,

I will reward them fully[fn]

for their former deeds.”

For long ago I[fn] broke your yoke;

I[fn] tore off your chains.

You insisted, “I will not serve! ”

On every high hill

and under every green tree

you lay down like a prostitute.

“Surely, falsehood comes from the hills,

commotion from the mountains,

but the salvation of Israel

is only in the LORD our God.

I looked at the mountains,

and they were quaking;

all the hills shook.

Your adulteries and your lustful neighing,

your depraved prostitution

on the hills, in the fields —

I have seen your abhorrent acts.

Woe to you, Jerusalem!

You are unclean —

for how long yet?

“I am about to send for many fishermen” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,