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Numbers 33:19-20

Joshua 15:32

Joshua 19:7

Judges 20:45, 47

Judges 21:13

2 Samuel 4:2, 5, 9

1 Chronicles 4:32

1 Chronicles 6:77

Nehemiah 11:29

(pomegranate), the name of several towns

  1. A city of Zebulun (1 Chronicles 6:77; Nehemiah 11:29) a Levitical city, the present Rummaneh, six miles north of Nazareth
  2. A town in the southern portion of Judah (Joshua 15:32), allotted to Simeon (Joshua 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32) probably 13 miles southwest of Hebron
  3. Rimmon-parez (pomegranate of the breach), the name of a march-station in the wilderness (Numbers 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 (Judges 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 (2 Samuel 4:2, 5, 9)

Smith's Bible Names Dictionary (1866)

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