Bible Location
Meaning: fearing · 6 cross references · Modern-day map available
Jarmuth was a town in the lowland plain of Judah and the seat of one of the kings who opposed Joshua. It is important because it appears in the southern conquest traditions and later in Judah's town lists and post-exilic settlement. First appears in Josh 10:3.1
AI summary: Jarmuth's significance comes from its role in the alliance of Canaanite kings who resisted Israel in Joshua. That makes it part of the southern campaign narrative in which local power centers are confronted and subdued. Later references place the town quietly within Judah's settled geography and the resettlement patterns after exile, showing continuity beyond the conquest stories. The cross references present Jarmuth as a former royal town that became part of Judah's ordinary inherited landscape.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. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.