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Rimmon Scripture - Zechariah 14:10

All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and [from] the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses....

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Rimmon Scripture - Judges 20:45

And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them....

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Rimmon Scripture - 2 Samuel 4:2

And Saul's son had two men [that were] captains of bands: the name of the one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:...

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Rimmon in Wikipedia

Rimmon (Hebrew "pomegranate") is the proper name for a number of people or objects in the Hebrew Bible: Torah with rimmonim A man of Beeroth (2 Samuel 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Joshua 9:17.) A Syrian cult image, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18. In Syria this deity was known as "Baal" ("the Lord" par excellence), in Assyria a...

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Rimmon in Hitchcock's Bible Names

exalted; pomegranate...

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Rimmon in Naves Topical Bible

-1. Father of the murderers of Ish-bosheth 2Sa 4:2,5,9 -2. A city south of Jerusalem Zec 14:10 Allotted to the tribe of Judah Jos 15:32; Ne 11:29 Later alloted to the tribe of Simeon Jos 19:7; 1Ch 4:32 Called REMMON Jos 19:7 Also called EN-RIMMON Ne 11:29 -3. A city of the tribe of Zebulun 1Ch 6:77 Called REMMON-METHOAR Jos 19:13 -4...

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Rimmon in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(pomegranate) the name of several towns. 1. A city of Zebulun 1Ch 6:77; Ne 11:29 a Levitical city, the present Rummaneh, six miles north of Nazareth. 2. A town in the southern portion of Judah, Jos 15:3 allotted to Simeon, Jos 19:7; 1Ch 4:32 probably 13 miles southwest of Hebron. 3. Rimmon-parez (pomegranate of the breach), the name of a mar...

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Rimmon in Easton's Bible Dictionary

pomegranate. (1.) A man of Beeroth (2 Sam. 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Josh. 9:17.) (2.) A Syrian idol, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18. (3.) One of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon (Josh. 15:21, 32; 19:7; 1 Chr. 4:32). In Josh. 15:32 Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in 19:7 and 1 Chr....

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Rimmon in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Father of Rechab and Bannah: 2 Samuel 4:2-9.(See RECHAB; BAANAH.) 2. An idol worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus (2 Kings 5:18). The name appears in Hadad Rimmon. From rum, "the most high"; as El-ion (Selden, Gesenius, etc.). Others from Hebrew rimmon, a "pomegranate," sacred to Venus; the fertilizing principle in nature; tree worship a...

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Rimmon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

rim'-on: (1) The rock Rimmon (cela` rimmon; he petra Rhemmon): 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" (Jdg 20:45,47; 21:13). Robinson's identification (RB, I, 440) has been very generally accepted. He ...

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