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Rimmon
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or RIMMON . 1 . A Beerothite ( 2 Samuel 4:2; 2 Samuel 4:5; 2 Samuel 4:9 ). 2 . The rock whither the remnants of the Benjamites fled ( Judges 20:45; Judges 21:13 ). It has been identified with a lofty rock or conical chalky hill, visible in all directions, on the summit of which stands the village of Rummôn , about 3 miles E. of Bethel. 3 . A city in the south of Judah, towards the border of Edom, Joshua 15:32; in Joshua 19:7 counted to Simeon; In Zechariah 14:10 named as lying to the far south of Jerusalem. See, further, En-rimmon. 4 . In Joshua 19:13 one of the boundaries of Zebulun is given as ‘Rimmon which stretcheth to the Nç‘âh’ (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] wrongly ‘Remmonmethoar to Neah’). In 1 Chronicles 6:77 [Heb. 62] the name appears as Rimmono , and in Joshua 21:35 as Rimmonah (for which, by a textual error, MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] has Dimnah ). This Rimmon is the modern Rummâneh , north of Nazareth.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Rimmon'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/r/rimmon.html. 1909.
