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; 31:1-8; 2 Sam. 1:6-21; 21:12; 1 Chr. 10:1," 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 tidings of this defeat were conveyed to David," "he gave utterance to those pathetic words in the "Song of the" "Bow" (2 Sam. 1:19-27)."

Definition of Gilboa:
"revolution of inquiry"