Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

mahanaim

mahanaim


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Mahanaim 
  two  camps,  a  place  near  the  Jabbok,  beyond  Jordan,  where  Jacob 
  was  met  by  the  "angels  of  God,"  and  where  he  divided  his  retinue 
  into  "two  hosts"  on  his  return  from  Padan-aram  (Gen.  32:2).  This 
  name  was  afterwards  given  to  the  town  which  was  built  at  that 
  place  It  was  the  southern  boundary  of  Bashan  (Josh.  13:26,  30), 
  and  became  a  city  of  the  Levites  (21:38).  Here  Saul's  son 
  Ishbosheth  reigned  (2  Sam.  2:8,  12),  while  David  reigned  at 
  Hebron.  Here  also  after  a  troubled  reign,  Ishbosheth  was 
  murdered  by  two  of  his  own  bodyguard  (2  Sam.  4:5-7),  who  brought 
  his  head  to  David  at  Hebron,  but  were  instead  of  being 
  rewarded,  put  to  death  by  him  for  their  cold-blooded  murder. 
  Many  years  after  this  when  he  fled  from  Jerusalem  on  the 
  rebellion  of  his  son  Absalom,  David  made  Mahanaim,  where 
  Barzillai  entertained  him  his  headquarters,  and  here  he 
  mustered  his  forces  which  were  led  against  the  army  that  had 
  gathered  around  Absalom.  It  was  while  sitting  at  the  gate  of 
  this  town  that  tidings  of  the  great  and  decisive  battle  between 
  the  two  hosts  and  of  the  death  of  his  son  Absalom  reached  him 
  when  he  gave  way  to  the  most  violent  grief  (2  Sam.  17:24-27). 
 
  The  only  other  reference  to  Mahanaim  is  as  a  station  of  one  of 
  Solomon's  purveyors  (1  Kings  4:14).  It  has  been  identified  with 
  the  modern  Mukhumah  a  ruin  found  in  a  depressed  plain  called 
  el-Bukie'a,  "the  little  vale,"  near  Penuel,  south  of  the  Jabbok, 
  and  north-east  of  es-Salt. 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Mahanaim,  tents;  two  fields;  two  armies