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).



 Gilboa, revolution of inquiry