Ramah 4
settlement
Where it is
6 locations have been proposed, 37 km apart at the extremes. This atlas draws the first; the others are recorded here because the disagreement is real and is not ours to settle.
- Al Ram31.8543, 35.2316
- Ramallah31.8969, 35.2017
- Ramat Rahel31.7399, 35.2169
- Beit Rima32.0329, 35.1025
- Nabi Samwil31.8327, 35.1801
- Rantis32.0281, 35.0194
Where Scripture names it
13 verses in 1 book.
Where this atlas draws it
5 pins across 5 chapters — this atlas’s own editorial choice, not a claim about the text.
- Ramahmatched decided — "Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD" (v.17). Caveat: the chapter's decisive events — the assembly, the repentance and the victory — are at Mizpah ("Gather all Israel to Mizpah", v.5), which is not a component. Ramah is