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Mahanaim Scripture - 2 Samuel 2:8

But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;...

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Mahanaim Scripture - 2 Samuel 2:29

And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim....

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Mahanaim Scripture - 1 Kings 2:8

And, behold, [thou hast] with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword....

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Mahanaim in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ma-ha-na'-im (machanayim; the Greek is different in every case where the name occurs, Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus also giving variant forms; the dual form may be taken as having arisen from an old locative ending, as, e.g. yerushala(y)im from an original yerushalem. In Gen 32:21 machaneh is evidently a parallel form and should be re...

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Mahanaim in Naves Topical Bible

The place where Jacob had the vision of angels Ge 32:2 -The town of, allotted to Gad Jos 13:26,30 -One of the Levitical cities Jos 21:38 -Ish-bosheth establishes himself at, when made king over Israel 2Sa 2:8-12 -David lodges at, at the time of Absalom's rebellion 2Sa 17:27-29; 1Ki 2:8...

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Mahanaim in Hitchcock's Bible Names

tents; two fields; two armies...

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Mahanaim in Smiths Bible Dictionary

a town on the east of the Jordan. The name signifies two hosts or two camps,and was given to it by Jacob, because he there met "the angels of God." Ge 32:1,2 We next meet with it in the records of the conquest. Jos 13:26,30 It was within the territory of Gad, Jos 21:38,39 and therefore on the south side of the torrent Jabbok. The town with its...

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Mahanaim in Easton's Bible Dictionary

two camps, a place near the Jabbok, beyond Jordan, where Jacob was met by the "angels of God," and where he divided his retinue into "two hosts" on his return from Padan-aram (Gen. 32:2). This name was afterwards given to the town which was built at that place. It was the southern boundary of Bashan (Josh. 13:26, 30), and became a city of...

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Mahanaim in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("Two camps or hosts".) A place on the Jabbok so-called by Jacob from the two angelic hosts which appeared to him when returning from Padan Aram to Canaan. (See JACOB.) The two may refer to Jacob's own camp and that of the angels, or rather his division of his party into two, corresponding to which were the two angelic companies, one to guard ...

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