1 Kings 15:22

Built with them. Asa had followed a vigorous military policy, building fortified posts where they might be needed, and making “walls, and towers, gates, and bars” (2 Chron. 14:6, 7). After Baasha had left off his efforts at Ramah, the modern er-Ram, in Benjamin, Asa selected a stronger site 1 3/4 mi. (2.8 km.) east of it, Geba, modern Jeba‘, which stood at the top of a terraced hill, overlooking the valley to the north, and another site, Mizpah, identified by some with Tell en-Nasbeh, 3 1/2 mi. (5.6 km.) northwest of it. The materials collected by Baasha for fortifying Ramah were employed by Asa to fortify Geba and Mizpah. Mizpah must have been a strong and important place, for it was chosen by Gedaliah, governor of Judah appointed by Nebuchadnezzar, as the headquarters from which he commanded the highway from Shechem and Samaria to Jerusalem (Jer. 41:1-5).