AN

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

OF THE

OLD TESTAMENT.

PART III.

AN

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

OF THE

OLD TESTAMENT.

CHAP. I.

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

THAT the reader may the more eafily apprehend, how the The intro
series of this geographical Treatife answers to the series of duction.
the facred Hiftory, I judge it beft to comprehend all the
places, mentioned in the first book of Samuel, under one
chapter, dividing the fame into two feveral fections, as follows.

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.