It was located near Gibeon and Mizpah to the West, Gibeah to the South, and Geba to the East.
Ramah has been commonly identified with modern al-Ram, about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Jerusalem.
When Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians, those taken captive were assembled in Ramah before being moved to Babylon (Jeremiah 40:1).
Jeremiah said: Rachel – the ancestress of the three tribes, Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin [8] – had so desired children that she considered herself dead without them (Genesis 30:1).
In the New Testament, Ramah is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew (2:18), where it is stated that Jeremiah's prophecy about Rachel received "a second accomplishment" [10] in the slaughter of boy children carried out when Herod was king: