New Revised Standard Version
they have crossed over the pass, at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles, Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Contemporary English Version
before crossing the valley and spending the night at Geba. The people of Ramah are terrified; everyone in Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, has run away.

New American Bible
He has crossed the ravine, at Geba he has camped for the night. Ramah trembles, Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.

They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.

the passage

1 Samuel 13:23 And the army of the Philistines went out in order to advance further in Machmas.

1 Samuel 14:4 Now there were between the ascents, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks standing up on both sides, and steep cliffs like teeth on the one side, and on the other, the name of the one was Boses, and the name of the other was Sene:

Geba

Joshua 21:17 And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and Gabae,

1 Kings 15:23 But the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his strength, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Ramah

Joshua 18:24,25 The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, and their villages. . . .

1 Samuel 7:17 And he returned to Ramatha: for there was his house, and there he judged Israel: he built also there an altar to the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:34 And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

Jeremiah 31:15 Thus saith the Lord: A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of mourning, and weeping, of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted for them, because they are not.

Hosea 5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye in Bethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.

gibeah

Judges 19:12-15 His master answered him: I will not go into the town of another nation, who are not of the children of Israel, but I will pass over to Gabaa: . . .

1 Samuel 11:4 The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

1 Samuel 13:2 And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel: and two thousand were with Saul in Machmas, and in mount Bethel: and a thousand with Jonathan in Gabaa of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent back every man to their dwellings.

Hosea 9:9 They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.

Hosea 10:9 From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they stood: the battle in Gabaa against the children of iniquity shall not overtake them.