Rama
A city first mentioned in , near Gibeah of Benjamin. It was fortified by Baasha, king of Israel ( ; Chr. ). Asa, king of Judah, employed Benhadad the Syrian king to drive Baasha from this city ( ). ( ) refers to it, and also Jeremiah, who was once a prisoner there among the other captives of Jerusalem when it was taken by Nebuchadnezzar ( ; ). Rachel, whose tomb lies close to Bethlehem, is represented as weeping in Ramah ( ) for her slaughtered children. This prophecy is illustrated and fulfilled in the re-awakening of Rachel's grief at the slaughter of the infants in Bethlehem ( ). It is identified with the modern village of er-Ram, between Gibeon and Beeroth, about 5 miles due north of Jerusalem. (See .)A town identified with Rameh, on the border of Asher, about 13 miles south-east of Tyre, "on a solitary hill in the midst of a basin of green fields" ( ).One of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali ( ), on a mountain slope, about seven and a half miles west-south-west of Safed, and 15 miles west of the north end of the Sea of Galilee, the present large and well-built village of Rameh.The same as Ramathaim-zophim (q.v.), a town of Mount Ephraim ( ).The same as Ramoth-gilead (q.v.), ; Chr. .
