Ramah
“same as Ram” Hitchcock's 186914 mentions, all in 1 Samuel
Where it is
No coordinates are recorded for this place.
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About this place
Elkanah, Samuel’s father, was “a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim” (1 Samuel 1:1), and after worshiping at Shiloh he and Hannah “returned and came to their house to Ramah” (1 Samuel 1:19). Samuel judged Israel on a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal and Mizpah, but “his return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there” (1 Samuel 7:16–17). The elders came to him at Ramah to ask for a king (1 Samuel 8:4), David fled to him there (1 Samuel 19:18), and Israel “buried him at his house at Ramah” (1 Samuel 25:1).
Its site is not known for certain. It is not the Ramah of Benjamin near Gibeah, and Scripture keeps it apart from Mizpah.
Article: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · corrected by Gospel Companion from the verses
Every mention
14 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
1 Samuel 14 mentions
1 Samuel 1:1Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an…1 Samuel 1:19They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.1 Samuel 2:11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.1 Samuel 7:17His return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to Yahweh there.1 Samuel 8:4Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel to Ramah.1 Samuel 15:34Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.1 Samuel 16:13Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.1 Samuel 19:18Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.1 Samuel 19:19Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”1 Samuel 19:22Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”1 Samuel 19:23He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.1 Samuel 20:1David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”1 Samuel 25:1Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.1 Samuel 28:3Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land.
What the dictionary says
(a hill).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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- Gospel Companion · written from the verses (WEB) for this entry
- STEPBible TIPNR · Translators Individualised Proper Names with all References (the verse links) · CC BY 4.0 · github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data
- Corrected by Gospel Companion · Samuel's home town Ramah (Ramathaim Zophim) was filed under Mizpah; 1 Samuel 7:16-17 keeps the two towns apart
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain