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Zalmon
Shady. (1.) One of David’s warriors, called the Ahohite (2 Sam 23:28); called also Ilai (1 Chr 11:29).
(2.) A wood near Shechem, from which Abimelech and his party brought boughs and “put them to the hold” of Shechem, “and set the hold on fire” (Judg 9:48). Probably the southern peak of Gerizim, now called Jebel Sulman. (See Salmon.)
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Judges 9:48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
- 2 Samuel 23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
