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Hadad-rimmon
(composed of the names of two Syrian idols), the name of a place in the valley of Megiddo. It is alluded to by the prophet Zechariah (Zech 12:11) in a proverbial expression derived from the lamentation for Josiah, who was mortally wounded near this place (2 Chr 35:22–25). It has been identified with the modern Rummaneh, a village “at the foot of the Megiddo hills, in a notch or valley about an hour and a half south of Tell Metzellim.”
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Zechariah 12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
