Gibeah of Saul was a town in the tribal territory of Benjamin, the home of Saul, the first king of Israel. It appears in the Book of Mormon once, in Nephi’s quotation of Isaiah, where it is named among the towns along the route of an advancing army: “Ramath is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled” (2 Nephi 20:29). The same verse places it near Geba. As an ancient settlement it stood on a hill, in keeping with its name (Hebrew for “hill”).
In the biblical record Gibeah was the setting for the account of the Levite’s concubine, who was abused there and then divided into twelve pieces sent throughout Israel, an act that brought on civil war against the tribe of Benjamin (Judges 19). The exact location of Gibeah is debated among scholars.