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Aram-Maachah

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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(1 Chronicles 19:6): A district south of Damascus, bordering on the trans-Jordanic territory of Manasseh. Maachah is said in Genesis 22:24 to have been a descendant of Nahor, Abraham's brother, and the territory called after him is declared in Joshua 13:13 not to have been conquered in the first Israelitish settlement of Canaan. David made its petty king tributary (2 Samuel 10:6-8), and by the time of the chronicler, Maachah was regarded as an ancestress of a Manassite clan (1 Chronicles 7:16). Strangely enough, 2 Samuel 10:6 has "king Maacah," which makes it doubtful if Aram-Maachah is the correct form.

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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Aram-Maachah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/aram-maachah.html. 1901.
 
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