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(1) The rock Rimmon ( רמון סלע , ṣela‛ rimmōn ; ἡ πέτρα Ῥεμμών , hē pétra Rhemmṓn ): The place of refuge of the 600 surviving Benjamites of Gibeah ( Jeba‛ ) who "turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months" ( Judges 20:45 , Judges 20:47; Judges 21:13 ). Robinson's identification (RB , I, 440) has been very generally accepted. He found a conical and very prominent hill some 6 miles North-Northeast of Jeba‛ upon which stands a village called Rummōn . This site was known to Eusebius and Jerome (OS 146 6; 287 98), who describe it as 15 Roman miles from Jerusalem. Another view, which would locate the place of refuge of the Benjamites in the Mughāret el jai , a large cavern on the south of the Wâdy Suweinı̂t , near Jeba‛ , is strongly advocated by Rawnsley and Birch (see PEF , III, 137-48). The latter connects this again with 1 Samuel 14:2 , where Saul, accompanied by his 600, "abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah" under the pomegranate tree (Rimmon).

(2) ( רמּון , rimmōn ; Ἐρεμμών , Eremmṓn , or Ῥεμμώθ , Rhemmṓth ): A city in the Negeb, near the border of Edom, ascribed to Judah ( Joshua 15:32 ) and to Simeon (Joshua 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32 , the King James Version "Remmon"). In Zechariah 14:10 it is mentioned as the extreme South of Judah - "from Geba to Rimmon, South of Jerusalem." In the earlier references Rimmon occurs in close association with ‛Ain (a spring), and in Nehemiah 11:29 , what is apparently the same place, ‛Ain rimmon , is called En -rimmon (which see).

(3) ( רמּון , rimmōn ( Joshua 19:13 ), רמונה , rimmōnāh , in some Hebrew manuscripts דּמנה , dimāh (see DIMNAH ) (Joshua 21:35 ), and רמּונו , rimmōnō (1 Chronicles 6:77 )): In the King James Version we have "Remmon-methoar" in Joshua 19:13 , but the Revised Version (British and American) translates the latter as "which stretcheth." This was a city on the border of Zebulun (Joshua 19:13 ) allotted to the Levites (Joshua 21:35 , "Dimnah"; 1 Chronicles 6:77 ). The site is now the little village of Rummāneh on a low ridge South of the western end of the marshy plain el Baṭṭauf in Galilee; there are many rock-cut tombs and cisterns. It is about 4 miles North of el Mesh -hed , usually considered to be the site of Gath-hepher. See PEF , I, 363, Sh VI.