1 Samuel 7:17

7:17 Then he would return to Ramah, because his home was there. He also judged ¹  Israel there and built an altar to the Lord there.

1 Samuel 15:34

15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah, while Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

1 Samuel 28:3

28:3 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented over him and had buried him in Ramah, his hometown. ²  In the meantime Saul had removed the mediums ³  and magicians ⁴  from the land.

Psalms 116:11

116:11 I rashly declared, ⁵ 

“All men are liars.”

James 5:16

5:16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness. ⁶ 

¹ tn Or perhaps “settled disputes for” (cf. NLT “would hear cases there”; NRSV “administered justice there”).

² tn Heb “in Ramah, even in his city.”

³ tn The Hebrew term translated “mediums” actually refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits (see 2 Kgs 21:6). In v. 7 the witch of Endor is called the owner of a ritual pit. See H. Hoffner, “Second Millennium Antecedents to the Hebrew ’OñBù,” JBL 86 (1967): 385-401. Here the term refers by metonymy to the owner of such a pit (see H. A. Hoffner, TDOT 1:133).

⁴ sn See Isa 8:19 for another reference to magicians who attempted to conjure up underworld spirits.

⁵ tn Heb “I said in my haste.”

⁶ tn Or “the fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful”; Grk “is very powerful in its working.”