GILBOA
boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua', memorable as the scene of Saul's disastrous defeat by the Philistines. Here also his three sons were slain, and he himself died by his own hand (1-Sam 28:4;31:1; 2-Sam 1:6;21:12; 1-Chr 10:1, 1-Chr 10: 8). It was a low barren range of mountains bounding the valley of Esdraelon (Jezreel) on the east, between it and the Jordan valley. When the tidin......