Ramath-mizpeh

Ramath-mizpeh ("height of the watchtower") appears once in Scripture as a boundary marker on Gad's Transjordan tribal allotment: "And from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir" (Joshua 13:26). The town commanded the strategic Gilead highland ridge in the central Transjordan plateau. It is widely identified with the patriarchal site of Mizpah-Gilead (Genesis 31:49) where Jacob and Laban heaped up a pillar of stones and swore the boundary covenant — the same site where Jephthah was later made chief over Israel (Judges 11:11).