Ramoth

RAMOTH, a famous City in the Mountains of Gilead. It is often call’d Ramoth-gilead; sometimes only Ramoth; and sometimes Ramath-mizpeh, or the Watch-tower¹. Josephus calls it Ramathan, or Aramatha. This City belonged to the Tribe of Gad. It was assigned for an Deut. iv. 43. & xx. 8. Josh. xx. 8. & xxi. 37.Habitation to the Levites, and was one of the Cities of Refuge beyond Jordan. It became famous during the Reigns of the later Kings of Israel, and was the Occasion of several Wars between these Princes and the Kings of Damascus, who had made a Conquest of it, and from whom the Kings of Israel, who laid claim to it, endeavour’d 1 Kings xxii. 3, 4, &c. 2 Kings viii. 28, 29. 2 Chron. xxii. 5.to regain it. Jehoram King of Judah was dangerously wounded at the Siege of this 2 Kings ix. 1,2,3, &c.Place: And Jehu the Son of Nimshi was here anointed a King of Israel, by a Prophet sent by Elisha. Ahab King of Israel was kill’d 2 Chron. xviii. 3,4, 5, &c.in the Battle that he fought with the Syrians before this Place. Eusebius says, that Ramoth was fifteen Miles from Philadelphia towards the East. St. Jerom places it in the Neighbourhood of Jabok, and consequently to the North of Philadelphia.

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