Rimmon
Beskrywing
'n Onoorwinbare, rotsagtige natuurlike vesting [Rig 20:45 -47; Rig 21:13 ] tussen Gibeon en die Jordaanvallei. Hier het 600 Benjaminitiese manne vir vier maande weggekruip om uitwissing te ontsnap, wat Gibeon getref het. Die hedendaagse dorp Rammūn, 5 km oos van Bet-El, herinner aan hierdie plek. R. Beerotiet, vader van Baanah en Rechab uit die stam van Benjamin [2Sam 4:2 , 5, 9], wat Isboset vermoor het. 'n Plek in die stam van Sebulon, toegeken aan die Leviete van die Merari-klan [1Kron 6:77 ]. Dit mag identies wees aan die plek wat Damna bedien het [Jos 21:35 , vgl. 19:13]. Navorsers glo dat die dorp Rummāneh, ongeveer 10 km noordwes van Nasaret, die terrein van die ou R. aandui. Die naam van 'n Siriese godheid [Akkadies rammān = donderheer], wie se heiligdom in Damaskus was. Volgens [2Kon 5:18 ], het die Siriese koning en sy bevelvoerder Naäman dit aanbid. In Assirië was hierdie godheid onder die 12 groot godhede; dit het heerskappy oor reën en storms, donder en weerlig gehad. Dit was identies aan Adad, die opperste Siriese godheid. *Adad-rimmon [Sag 12:11 ].
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pomegranate.
(1.) A man of Beeroth (2Sam 4:2 ), one of the four Gibeonite cities. [See (Josh 9:17)].
(2.) A Syrian idol, mentioned only in (2Kings 5:18).
(3.) One of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon (Josh 15:21; 15:32; 19:7; 1Chr 4:32). In (Josh 15:32) Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in (Josh 19:7) and (1Chr 4:32) [comp. (Neh 11:29 )] the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain-Rimmon = the spring of the pomegranate. It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of Hebron.
(4.) "Rock of," to which the Benjamites fled (Judg 20:45; 20:47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the fearful battle at Gibeah, in which they were almost exterminated, 600 only surviving out of about 27,000. It is the present village of Rummon, "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley," supposed to be the site of Ai.
EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary