Rimmon
Town
Location disputed Tel Halif: about 55 km (35 miles) southwest of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- Tel Halif Possible
- Khirbet Umm er Rammamin Less likely
Rimmon in the Bible Dictionary · Another Rimmon (area · Judges 20:45) · Another Rimmon (town · 1 Chronicles 6:77)
Named in 4 Verses
- Joshua 15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
- Joshua 19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
- 1 Chronicles 4:32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
- Zechariah 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
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