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Ramoth-gilead

also known as: Ramoth in Gilead

Meaning: heights of Gilead

This is a Levite city of refuge on the east of Jordan; called “Ramoth in Gilead” (Deuteronomy 4:43; Joshua 20:8; 21:38).

Here Ahab, who joined Jehoshaphat in an endeavour to rescue it from the hands of the king of Syria, was mortally wounded (1 Kings 22:1-36). A similar attempt was afterwards made by Ahaziah and Joram, when the latter was wounded (2 Kings 8:28). In this city Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, was anointed by one of the sons of the prophets (9:1, 4).

It has with probability been identified with Reimun, on the northern slope of the Jabbok, about 5 miles west of Jerash or Gerasa, one of the cities of Decapolis. Others identify it with Gerosh, about 25 miles northeast of es-Salt, with which also many have identified it. (See Ramath-Mizpeh.)

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