Gibbethon

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Gibbethon
     a height, a city of the Philistines in the territory of Dan,
     given to the Kohathites (Josh. 19:44; 21:23). Nadab the king of
     Israel, while besieging it, was slain under its walls by Baasha,
     one of his own officers (1 Kings 15:27). It was in the
     possession of the Philistines after the secession of the ten


     tribes (2 Chr. 11:13, 14).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Gibbethon, a back; a high house