Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

Bible References

The passage

1 Samuel 13:23
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass at Michmash.
1 Samuel 14:4
Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to get to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; one [crag] was named Bozez, and the other, Seneh.

Ramah

Joshua 18:24
and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages;
1 Samuel 7:17
Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there; and there he judged Israel, and there he built an altar to the Lord. Cross references: 1 Samuel 7:2 : 2 Sam 6:3, 4; 1 Chr 13:5-7 end of crossrefs
1 Samuel 15:34
Then Samuel went to Ramah, but Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.
Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord,
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
Lamentation (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping.
Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children;
She refuses to be comforted for her children,
Because they are gone.”
Hosea 5:8

Blow the horn in Gibeah,
The trumpet in Ramah [the lofty hills on Benjamin’s northern border].
Sound the alarm at Beth-aven:
“Behind you and coming after you [is the enemy], O Benjamin [be on guard]!”