A town, about the site of which there has been much dispute, in Benjamin, on the border of Ephraim (Josh. 18: 25; Judg. 4: 5; Judg. 19: 13); the home of Samuel (1 Sam. 1: 19; 1 Sam. 2: 11; 1 Sam. 7: 17; 1 Sam. 8: 4; 1 Sam. 15: 34; 1 Sam. 16: 13; 1 Sam. 19: 18-23; 1 Sam. 20: 1; 1 Sam. 22: 6; 1 Sam. 25: 1; 1 Sam. 28: 3). Being on the frontier and on the road to Jerusalem, it was the scene of several conflicts between Israel and Judah (1 Kgs. 15: 17, 21-22; 2 Chr. 16: 1, 5-6). At the time of the captivity the exiles were collected here before removal to Babylon (Jer. 31: 15; Jer. 40: 1; cf. Matt. 2: 18, and see Rachel; see also Ezra 2: 26; Neh. 7: 30; Neh. 11: 33; Isa. 10: 29; Hosea 5: 8).

Josh. 19: 36.

Josh. 19: 29.

Ramoth-gilead (2 Kgs. 8: 29; 2 Chr. 22: 6).