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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comFausset Bible Dictionary: Jarmuth
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1. A town in the shephelah or low hills (not "the plain ") of Judah (). Piram its king was one of the five confederated to punish Gibeon for submitting to Joshua (; ); routed at Beth-horon; executed at Makkedah (). Occupied by children of Judah on the return from Babylon (). Now Yarmuk, with a hill near, Tell Urmud.
2. A city of Issachar, assigned to the Gershonite Levites. (). REMETH in ; RAMOTH in . Both are modifications of the same root as Jarmuth.