Rama in Benjamin

Rama in Benjamin was a biblical place in the borderland between Judah and Israel . He was in the context of the border disputes between northern and southern empire around 900 BC. Fortified by Israeli King Basha . Asa the king of Judah moved the king of Aram to attack Israel in the north. Then Bascha had to withdraw from Rama. Asa immediately used his building materials to fortify the neighboring cities of Mizpah and Geba . ( 1 Kings 15,16-22 EU ; 2 Chr 16,1-6 EU ).

The place is identified with the eight kilometers north of Jerusalem located er-Rām ( 31 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ N , 35 ° 13 ′ 54 ″ E ). 31.85 35.231666666667

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Georg Beer : Rama, Ramath, Ramatha 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IA, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Sp. 132 f.
Klaus Koenen: Rama. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.