This document is about Hebron (place name). For other homonyms, please refer to the Hebron document. Hebron is an ancient city southwest of Jerusalem. 
Numbers 13:33There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
여섯개의 도피성중 하나이며, 옛 이름은 기럇아르바이다.
Joshua 20:7Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
아브라함이 가족 묘지로 구매한 막벨라가 이곳에 있었다.
이후, 여호수아(눈의 아들)이 이 성을 취하여 일부는 갈렙과 나머지는 레위 지파인 아론에게 주었다.
Joshua 10:36They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.
Joshua 15:54Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
Joshua 21:10They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.Joshua 21:11But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.Joshua 21:12To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,
가나안 지역에서 매우 오랜 시간동안 중심도시의 역할을 하였다. 다윗왕이 아직 이스라엘을 통일하기 전, 유다 지파의 왕인 시절에는 이곳을 수도로 정하고 통치하였다.
2 Samuel 2:11Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2 Samuel 5:5The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David), saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here;” thinking, “David can’t come in here.”