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Ramah 4

Ramah 4

31.8543°, 35.2316° Identification — possible

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Where the Bible names it (13)

  1. 1 Samuel 1:19 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
  2. 1 Samuel 2:11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.
  3. 1 Samuel 7:17 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
  4. 1 Samuel 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah;
  5. 1 Samuel 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
  6. 1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
  7. 1 Samuel 19:18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
  8. 1 Samuel 19:19 It was told Saul, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
  9. 1 Samuel 19:22 Then went he also 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.”
  10. 1 Samuel 19:23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then the Spirit of God came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
  11. 1 Samuel 20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
  12. 1 Samuel 25:1 Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
  13. 1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

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