Biblical places
Ramah (Benjamin)
A town in Benjamite territory known as Samuel's hometown and a center of his ministry (1 Samuel 1, 7, 25), identified with the modern village of er-Ram about 8 km north of Jerusalem.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- High
- er-Ram (al-Ram)
- 31.8500, 35.2317
Wikidata and Wikipedia coordinates nearly match, within 0.01 degrees.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
Judges 4:5
And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
1 Samuel 1:19
And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
1 Kings 15:17
And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2 Kings 8:29
And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
2 Chronicles 16:1
In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
Ezra 2:26
The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.
Nehemiah 7:30
The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.