Jarmuth
Jarmuth was the name of two cities in the land of Canaan.
The one was an Amorite city in Canaan at the time of the Israelite settlement recorded in the Hebrew Bible. According to, 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, whom had recently massacred and killed all civilian inhabitants of the nearby cities of Jericho and Ai after killing the army and spared no man, woman, child, elderly, or animal. This Jarmuth is generally identified a modern site variously called Tel Jarmuth, Khirbet el-Yarmûk, or Tel Yarmut. This site is located on the south of Beit Shemesh, near Bayt Nattif, and is now a National Park. The Park spans over an area of 267 dunams.
Another Jarmuth became a Levitical city given to the Gershonites within the territory of the Tribe of Issachar, according to. Jarmuth is not mentioned in the parallel list of Levitical cities in 1 Chronicles 6), but Ramoth is mentioned in its place. The site of the Issacharian Jarmuth is not yet known.
The Douai-Rheims version of the Bible has an alternative spelling, Jaramoth.
