AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

OF THE

OLD TESTAMENT.

PART III.

Of the Places mentioned in the first Book of Samuel, and not

Spoken of before. THAT the reader may the more easily apprehend, how the The introm

I series of this geographical Treatise answers to the series of duction. the facred History, I judge it beft to comprehend all the places, mentioned in the first book of Samuel, under one chapter, dividing the same into two several sections, as follows.

SECT. I.
Of the Places mentioned from the Birth of Samuel, to his anoint.

S ing Saul to be King over Ifrael.
TN the first chapter of the book commonly called by us, thes.

first book of Samuel, we are informed ver. 19, 20. that Samuel was born at Ramah, otherwise called (as appears from thaim Zo

• phim, the ver. 1.) Ramathaim-Zophim, probably to distinguish it from hitth-place VOL. II,

Rama