Jarmuth
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Jarmuth was an Amorite city in Canaan at the time of the Israelite settlement recorded in the Hebrew Bible.
According to Joshua 10:3–5, its king, Piram, was one of five kings who formed an alliance to attack Gibeon in response to Gibeon's tolerance of the Israelite settlement under Joshua.
Jarmuth later became a Levitical city given to the Gershonites within the territory of the Tribe of Issachar, according to Joshua 21:20. Jarmuth is not mentioned in the parallel list of Levitical cities in 1 Chronicles 6), but Ramoth is mentioned in its place (1 Chronicles 6:73). Theologian John Gill suggested that they might have been the same place.[1]
The Douai-Rheims version of the Bible has an alternative spelling, Jaramoth.
References
- ↑ Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible on Joshua 21, accessed 21 November 2015
