Places of the Bible

Gath

City

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Gath, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.

War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 1 verse
Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 1 verse
Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 9 verses
David Kills Goliath · 1066 BC · 3 verses
Reign of David · 1054 BC · 3 verses
Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 3 verses
Reign of Joash · 878 BC · 1 verse
Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 1 verse
Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

A wine-vat, one of the five royal cities of the Philistines (Josh. 13:3) on which the ark brought calamity (1 Sam. 5:8, 9; 6:17). It was famous also as being the birthplace or residence of Goliath (1 Sam. 17:4). David fled from Saul to Achish, king of Gath (1 Sam. 21:10; 27:2-4; Ps. 56), and his connection with it will account for the words in 2 Sam. 1:20. It was afterwards conquered by David (2 Sam. 8:1). It occupied a strong position on the borders of Judah and Philistia (1 Sam. 21:10; 1 Chr. 18:1). Its site has been identified with the hill called Tell esSafieh, the Alba Specula of the Middle Ages, which rises 695 feet above the plain on its east edge. It is noticed on monuments about B.C. 1500.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 32 verses

Joshua: 11:22, 13:3
1 Samuel: 5:8, 6:17, 7:14, 17:4, 17:23, 17:52, 21:10, 21:12, 27:2, 27:3, 27:4, 27:11
2 Samuel: 1:20, 15:18, 21:20, 21:22
1 Kings: 2:39, 2:40, 2:41
2 Kings: 12:17
1 Chronicles: 7:21, 8:13, 18:1, 20:6, 20:8
2 Chronicles: 11:8, 26:6
Psalms: 56:1
Amos: 6:2
Micah: 1:10

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.