rimmon (1) Summary and Overview

(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 march-station in the wilderness. #Nu 33:19,20| No place now known has been identified with it. 4. Rimmon the Rock, a cliff or inaccessible natural fastness, in which the six hundred Benjamites who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge. #Jud 20:45,47; 21:13| In the wild country which lies on the east of the central highlands of Benjamin the name is still found attached to a village perched on the summit of a conical chalky hill, visible in all directions, and commanding the whole country. 5. A Benjamite of Beeroth, the father of Rechab and Baanah, the murderers of Ish-bosheth. #2Sa 4:2,5,9|