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Ramah

Named in 13 verses, first in 1 Samuel 1:19.

The dataset treats this record as another name for, or a duplicate of, Mizpah.

In the Bible

All 13 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

1 Samuel

  • 1 Samuel 1:19

    The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

  • 1 Samuel 2:11

    Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.

  • 1 Samuel 7:17

    Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.

  • 1 Samuel 8:4

    So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

  • 1 Samuel 15:34

    Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

  • 1 Samuel 16:13

    So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

  • 1 Samuel 19:18

    So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.

  • 1 Samuel 19:19

    When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,

  • 1 Samuel 19:22

    Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.

  • 1 Samuel 19:23

    So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. But the Spirit of God came upon even Saul, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

  • 1 Samuel 20:1

    Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”

  • 1 Samuel 25:1

    When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.

  • 1 Samuel 28:3

    Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The same as Ramathaim-zophim (q.v.), a town of Mount Ephraim (1 Sam. 1:1, 19).

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