When five kings heard that Gibeon had made peace with Israel, they joined forces against it. One of them was “the king of Jarmuth.” Joshua 10 tells how Joshua came to Gibeon’s rescue, and how these five kings were later found hiding in a cave and brought out. Jarmuth is also named in the list of conquered kings in Joshua 12, and in Joshua 21 it is given with its pasture lands to the Levites. It is a hill-country town remembered mostly for its king’s part in one battle.
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Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four cities.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Height. (1.) A town in the plain of Judah (Josh. 15:35), originally the residence of one of the Canaanitish kings (10:3, 5, 23). It has been identified with the modern Yarmuk, a village about 7 miles north-east of Beit-Jibrin.
(2.) A Levitical city of the tribe of Issachar (Josh. 21:29), supposed by some to be the Ramah of Samuel (1 Sam. 19:22).
William Smith, 1884
(high).
(1.) A town in the low country of Judah. (Joshua 16:35) Its king, Piram, was one of the five who conspired. to punish Gibeon for having made alliance with Israel, (Joshua 10:3,5) and who were routed at Beth-horon and put to death by Joshua at Makkedah. ver. 33. Its site is probably the modern Yarmuk .
(2.) A city of Issachar allotted with its suburbs to the Gershonite Levites. (Joshua 21:29)