Rimmon 2
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A town in the southern part of the territory of the tribe of Judah [Josh 15:32 ]; it was allocated to the tribe of Simeon [Josh 19:7 ]. In the Old Testament, this town is always associated with the town of *Ain [1Chr 4:32 ]. After the return from captivity, it appears only in the compound name En-remmon, i.e., Ain-Remmon, which indicates that both places were merged into one [Neh 11:29 ]. It is often identified with the ruins of Ummer-Rumamim, about 14 km north of Beersheba.
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Rimmon
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