| | | | Jerusalem. No site has | | | | been found to suit | | | | this. (Smith’s _Bible | | | | Dictionary_.) | | | | =RITHMAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping | 18 | identified_ | | stations of the | | | | Israelites next to | | | | Hazeroth. | | | | =RIVER OF |Num. xxxiv. |_Wâdy el |19 |Generally believed EGYPT= (R.V. | 5; Josh. xv. | ʾArîsh_ | | to be ‘Wady el (R.V. =BROOK OF| 4, 47; 1 | | | ʾArish’--the principal EGYPT=) | Kings viii. | | | watercourse in the | 65; 2 Kings | | | south country. It | xxiv. 7; | | | rises south of ‘Kŭlʾat | Is. xxvii. | | | en Nahl,’ and has | 12; Ezek. | | | a run of over 120 | xlviii. 28; | | | miles, receiving many | Judith i. 9 | | | branches on its way, | | | | before it enters the | | | | Mediterranean south of | | | | Gaza. | | | | =ROGELIM= |2 Sam. xvii. |_Not |-- |Somewhere in Gad east | 27; xix. 31 | identified_ | | of Jordan. | | | | =RUMAH= |2 Kings |_Not |-- |The position of | xxiii. 36 | identified_ | | this place is very | | | | doubtful; thought to | | | | be either the ruined | | | | village Rûmeh (Sh. V.) | | | | north of Nazareth, or | | | | el Ormeh (Sh. XV.) | | | | (ʾArumah, Judg. ix. | | | | 41), near Shechem. | | | | =ROME= |1 Macc. i. | | | | 10; vii. 1; | | | | viii. 17, | | | | 19; xii. 1, | | | | 3; xiv. 16, | | | | 24; xv. 15; | | | | 2 Macc. iv. | | | | 11 | | | | | | |