Name of a person, deity and of several places.
1. A Beerothite, the father of Baanah and Rechab, Saul's "captains of troops" (II Sam 4:2) who slew Ishbosheth.
2. Assyrian god whom Naaman, the Syrian army commander, worshiped at "the temple of rimmon" (II Kgs 5:18). In Syria this deity was known as "Baal" ("the Lord" par excellence), in Assyria as "Ramanu" ("the Thunderer").
3. A city assigned to Judah "toward the border of Edom in the south" (Josh 15:20), later given to Simeon (Josh 19:1, 7). In Zechariah 14:10, Rimmon is the southernmost edge of the land which "shall be turned into a plain" on "the Day of the Lord" (Zech 14:1).
4. A town in the territory of Zebulun (Josh 19:13), it became a Levitical city (I Chr 6:77). Identified with er-Ruman, north of Nazareth.
5. The rock of Rimmon, to which 600 Benjamites fled after their battle with the Children of Israel. The cause of the fighting was the rape of a Levite's concubine by the men of Gibeah (Judg 20:4-9). Later, the Children of Israel made peace with the surviving Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon (Judg 21:13) and provided them with wives from the women of Jabesh Gilead and Shiloh (Judg 21:14, 21).
Concordance
RIMMON 1:
II Sam 4:2, 5,9
RIMMON 2:
II Kgs 5:18
RIMMON 3:
Josh 15:32; 19:7. I Chr 4:32. Zech 14:10
RIMMON 4:
Josh 19:13. I Chr 6:77
RIMMON 5:
Judg 20:45,47; 21:13
