AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. CHAP. I. Of the Places mentioned in the first Book of Samuel, and not THAT the reader may the more eafily apprehend, how the The intro SECT. I. Of the Places mentioned from the Birth of Samuel, to his anointing Saul to be King over Ifrael. the I. Of Ramah, N the first chapter of the book commonly called by us, IN first book of Samuel, we are informed ver. 19, 20. that Sa- or Ramamuel was born at Ramah, otherwife called (as appears ver. 1.) Ramathaim-Zophim, probably to diftinguish it from birth-place VOL. II. from thaim Zophim, the other of the pro · phet Samuel. |