RAMOTHGILEAD @ - (heights of Gilead), one of the great fastnesses on the east of jordan, and the key to an important district. (Kings:4:13) It was the city of refuge for the tribe of Gad, (4:43; Joshua:20:8Joshua:21:38) and the residence of one of Solomon’s commissariat officers. (Kings:4:13) During the invasion related in (Kings:15:20) or some subsequent incursion, this important place had seized by Ben-hadad I., king of Syria. The incidents of Ahab’s expedition are well known. [AHAB] Later it was taken by Israel, and held in spite of all the efforts of Hazael who was now on the throne of Damascus, to regain it. ( 2Kings:9:14) Henceforward Ramoth-gilead disappears from our view. Eusebius and Jerome specify the position of Ramoth as 15 miles from Philadelphia (Amman). It may correspond to the site bearing the name of Jel’ad , exactly identical with the ancient Hebrew Gilead, which is four or five miles north of es-Salt , 25 miles east of the Jordan and 13 miles south of the brook Jabbok.
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