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Adad-Rimmon

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Adad-Rim´mon, properly Hadad-Rimmon (A garden of pomegranates), a city in the valley of Jezreel, where was fought the famous battle between King Josiah and Pharaoh-Necho (2 Kings 23:29; Zechariah 12:11). Adad-rimmon was afterwards called Maximianopolis, in honor of the emperor Maximian. It was seventeen Roman miles from Caesarea, and ten miles from Jezreel.

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Adad-Rimmon'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​a/adad-rimmon.html.
 
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