1 Samuel 7:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then he would come back to Ramah, for his home was there; he administered justice there to Israel and built there an altar to the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 33:20

There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Genesis 35:7

and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

Isaiah 10:29

they have crossed over the pass; at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Judges 4:5

She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came up to her for judgment.

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, “The Lord is peace.” To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

1 Samuel 1:1

There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Samuel 1:19

They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. Elkanah knew his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

1 Samuel 11:15

So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.

1 Samuel 2:11

Then they left him there before the Lord and went home to Ramah, while the boy remained to minister to the Lord in the presence of the priest Eli.

1 Samuel 28:3

Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. Saul had expelled the mediums and the wizards from the land.

1 Samuel 8:4

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah

1 Samuel 9:12

They answered, “Yes, there he is just ahead of you. Hurry; he has come just now to the town because the people have a sacrifice today at the shrine.