Jarmuth
{{Short description|Archaeological ruin south of Beit Shemesh}}
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Jarmuth, {{langx|he|יַרְמוּת|Yarmuṯ}},{{cite book |last1=Negev |first1=Avraham |last2=Gibson |first2=Shimon |title=Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land |date=2001 |publisher=Continuum |isbn=978-0-8264-1316-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3JtAAAAMAAJ&q=Yarmut|pages=181, 234, 545}} was the name of two cities in Canaan.Lemche (2010), p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RfwUPrERBxEC&pg=PA160 160].
The Douay–Rheims Bible has an alternative spelling, Jaramoth.
Jarmuth near Beit Shemesh
{{Main|Tel Yarmuth}}
Jarmuth was an Amorite city in Canaan at the time of the Israelite settlement recorded in the Hebrew Bible. According to {{bibleverse||Joshua|10:3-5|HE}}, its king, Piram, was one of five kings who formed an alliance to attack Gibeon in response to Gibeon making a treaty with the Israelites led by Joshua, who had recently conquered the cities of Jericho and Ai. This Jarmuth is commonly identified with a modern site variously called Tel Yarmuthde Miroschedji (1990) in Hebrew, Tel Jarmuth, or Khirbet el-YarmûkRobinson (1856), p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearc02smitgoog#page/n34/mode/2up 17]. in Arabic (grid position 147124{{nbsp}}PAL).{{cite book |last=Aharoni|first=Y. |author-link=Yohanan Aharoni |title=The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography|edition=2 |publisher=Westminster Press |location=Philadelphia|year=1979|page=437 |language=en|isbn=0664242669 |oclc=6250553}} (original Hebrew edition: 'Land of Israel in Biblical Times - Historical Geography', Bialik Institute, Jerusalem (1962)) The site is located on the south of Beit Shemesh, near Bayt Nattif, and is now a National Park.[https://inature.info/wiki/%D7%92%D7%9F_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99_%D7%AA%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA Tel Yarmut National Park] (Hebrew) The Park spans over an area of 267 dunams (nearly 66 acres).
Jarmuth in Issachar
Another Jarmuth became a Levitical city given to the Gershonites within the territory of the Tribe of Issachar according to Joshua 21:20. It is not mentioned in the parallel list of Levitical cities in 1 Chronicles 6:73; Ramoth is mentioned in its place. The site of the Issacharian Jarmuth is not yet known. Some identify it with the site of Kawkab al-Hawa, which, if correct, might also correspond to Second Temple period Agrippina.Negev & Gibson (2001), Yarmut (a), p. 545.
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Bibliography
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- de Miroschedji, Pierre. (1990). The Early Bronze Age Fortifications at Tel Yarmut – An Interim Statement. Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical, and Geographical Studies. Volume 21.
- {{cite book|author=Lemche, Niels Peter|title=The A to Z of Ancient Israel|page=160 |date=9 April 2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4616-7172-5|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=RfwUPrERBxEC&pg=PA160}}
- {{cite book |editor-last= Negev |editor-first= Avraham |editor-link= Avraham Negev |editor-last2= Gibson |editor-first2= Shimon |editor-link2= Shimon Gibson |title= Yarmut (a); Yarmut (b) (Tel); Yarmuk (Khirbet el-) |page= 545 |work= Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land |year= 2001 |location= New York and London |publisher= Continuum |isbn=0-8264-1316-1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=l3JtAAAAMAAJ |access-date= 18 February 2022}} (Snippet view).
- Robinson, Edward (1856). Biblical Researches in Palestine. Vol. II, section XI, London, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearc02smitgoog#page/n34/mode/2up 17].
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