Jarmuth, , was the name of two cities in Canaan.
The Douay–Rheims Bible has an alternative spelling, Jaramoth.
Jarmuth near Beit Shemesh
Jarmuth was an Amorite city in Canaan at the time of the Israelite settlement recorded in the Hebrew Bible. According to , its king, Piram, was one of five kings who formed an alliance to attack Gibeon in response to Gibeon making a treaty with the Israelites led by Joshua, who had recently conquered the cities of Jericho and Ai. This Jarmuth is commonly identified with a modern site variously called Tel Yarmuthde Miroschedji (1990) in Hebrew, Tel Jarmuth, or Khirbet el-Yarmûk in Arabic (grid position 147124PAL). (original Hebrew edition: 'Land of Israel in Biblical Times - Historical Geography', Bialik Institute, Jerusalem (1962)) The site is located on the south of Beit Shemesh, near Bayt Nattif, and is now a National Park.Tel Yarmut National Park (Hebrew) The Park spans over an area of 267 dunams (nearly 66 acres).
Jarmuth in Issachar Another Jarmuth became a Levitical city given to the Gershonites within the territory of the Tribe of Issachar according to Joshua 21:20. It is not mentioned in the parallel list of Levitical cities in 1 Chronicles 6:73; Ramoth is mentioned in its place. The site of the Issacharian Jarmuth is not yet known. Some identify it with the site of Kawkab al-Hawa, which, if correct, might also correspond to Second Temple period Agrippina.Negev & Gibson (2001), Yarmut (a), p. 545.
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Bibliography
de Miroschedji, Pierre. (1990). The Early Bronze Age Fortifications at Tel Yarmut – An Interim Statement. Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical, and Geographical Studies. Volume 21.
(Snippet view). Robinson, Edward (1856). Biblical Researches in Palestine. Vol. II, section XI, London, p. 17.