Bible Strands
Nehemiah 11:33
Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Nehemiah records a post-exilic census, documenting families and their assigned settlements to repopulate Jerusalem. The narrator addresses the returned community by cataloging the specific towns allocated to them.
The words — The text lists חָצוֹר (Hazor), רָמָה (Ramah), and גִּתָּיִם (Gittaim), which function as proper nouns identifying established settlements in the Benjamin territory. These names operate as geographic markers within the administrative list.
The thread — The text places these towns within the repatriation register. Joshua 18:25 lists Ramah alongside neighboring Benjaminite cities, 1 Samuel 7:17 identifies Ramah as Samuel’s residential and judicial center, and 2 Samuel 4:3 records Gittaim as a place of refuge for fleeing Beerothites.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge that restoration depended on the deliberate reassignment of ancestral lands. It demands accountability to the documented boundaries and communities of the returned population.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
Cross-references
- 2 Samuel 4:3 because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
- Joshua 18:25 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
- 1 Samuel 7:17 Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.
- Matthew 2:18 “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”