Ramoth-Gilead
Ramoth-Gilead (Hebrew: רָמֹת גִּלְעָד, romanized: Rāmōṯ Gilʿāḏ, meaning "Heights of Gilead"), was a Levitical city and city of refuge east of the Jordan River in the Hebrew Bible, also called "Ramoth in Gilead" (Deuteronomy 4:43; Joshua 20:8; Joshua 21:38) or "Ramoth Galaad" in the Douay–Rheims Bible. It was located in the tribal territorial allotment of the tribe of Gad.
Biblical events
According to (
It appears to have been lost to Syria (
Later, an incident occurred when
Also in this city, Elisha, the prophet of God told one of the sons of the prophets to anoint Jehu, Joram's commander, king over Israel (2 Kings 9:1–6).
The British Bible scholar,
Location
It has been tentatively identified with Reimun, on the northern slope of the
Other possible locations include:[citation needed]
- Tell er-Rumeith, about 3 miles south of Ar-Ramtha, Jordan [6][7][8]
- Al-Salt.
References
- ^ 1 Kings 4:13
- ^ 1 Kings 22:3
- ^ 1 Kings 22:9–37; 2 Chronicles 18:34
- ^ Schonfield, Hugh J., The Bible Was Right: An Astonishing Examination of the New Testament (1959, NY, New American Library) chap. 48, pages 181-185. This suppositious Greek rendering does not occur in the Septuagint.
- ^ Easton, Matthew George, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (3rd ed., 1897, London, T. Nelson & Sons) s.v. "Ramoth-Gilead".
- ^ National Geographic Magazine, map Holy Land Today, Dec. 1963, atlas plate 52; Pritchard, James B., ed., The Harper Concise Atlas of the Bible (1991, London, Times Books) index and passim (this book uses maps from the 1987 The [London] Times Atlas of the Bible); Irvine, Stuart A., The Southern Border of Syria Reconstructed, The Catholic Bible Quarterly, vol. 56, nr.1 (Jan. 1994) page 30. Several other Bible atlases locate Ramoth-Gilead in the same general vicinity without bothering to provide its current name. The precise location of the biblical site, as distinguished from more recent abandoned settlements, is not completely certain, but is probably N 32° 29′ 25″, E 35° 52′ 49″, according to a map page of the German Bible Society. [1].
- ^ Knauf, E. A., 2001: The Mists of Ramthalon, or, How Ramoth-Gilead disappeared from the Archaeological Record. BN 110, 33–36.
- ^ Finkelstein, I., Lipschits, O., and Sergi, O. 2013. Tell er-Rumeith in Northern Jordan: Some Archaeological and Historical Observations. Semitica 55: 7-23.
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "Ramoth-Gilead". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.