Geba was a city of the tribe of Benjamin, in the territory of the kingdom of Judah near its northern boundary (Joshua 18:24). It was assigned to the Levites (Joshua 21:17; 1 Chronicles 6:60) and marked the northern end of the kingdom’s extent, paired with Beersheba in the south in the phrase “from Geba to Beersheba” (2 Kings 23:8). The town stood south of the Wady Suweinit gorge, on the Michmash pass, the setting of Jonathan’s attack on the Philistine garrison; the rock crag there faced northward toward Michmash and another southward toward Gibeah (1 Samuel 14:5). It is generally identified with the modern village of Jeba`, about 6 miles from Jerusalem.
King Asa of Judah fortified Geba with stones and timber taken from Ramah, which Baasha, king of Israel, had used to build that city (1 Kings 15:22). Isaiah names Geba in his account of the Assyrian advance on Jerusalem: the invaders pass through Michmash (Isaiah 10:28) and take up lodging at Geba, while Ramah is afraid and Gibeah of Saul flees (Isaiah 10:29). Geba is also listed among the towns reoccupied by returning exiles (Ezra 2:26; Nehemiah 11:31).
In the Book of Mormon, Geba appears only in Nephi’s quotation of this Isaiah passage, where the advancing enemy lodges at Geba (2 Nephi 20:29); it is not part of an independent Nephite geography.