Rimmon
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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
Rimmon (rĭm'ən), in the Bible. 1 Syrian god. 2 Father of the murderers of Ish-bosheth. 3 Rock, E of Bethel. There the remnants of the Benjamites took refuge after the battle of Gibeah. 4 See En-rimmon. 5 Levitical town, N ancient Palestine, the modern Rummana, Israel, N of Nazareth. It is also called Remmon-methoar and Dimnah.
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Rimmon
Rimmon (Hebrew "pomegranate") is the proper name for a number of people or objects in the Hebrew Bible:
- A man of Beeroth (2 Samuel 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Joshua 9:17.)
- A Syrian cult image, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18. In Syria this deity was known as “Baal” (“the Lord” par excellence), in Assyria as “Ramanu” (“the Thunderer”).
- One of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon (Josh. 15:21, 32; 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32). In Josh. 15:32 Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in 19:7 and 1 Chr. 4:32 the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain-Rimmon = "the spring of the pomegranate" (compare Nehemiah 11:29). It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of Hebron.
- The Rock of Rimmon was where the Benjamites fled (Judges 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the fearful battle at Gibeah, in which they were almost exterminated, 600 only surviving out of about 27,000. It is the present village of Rammun, "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley," supposed to be the site of Ai.
- (pl.Rimmonim) The ornaments of the Torah scroll.
- Rimmon means a grenade (also rimmon-yadh if it is specifically a hand grenade).
- An Israeli weekly publishing.
Literary references
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost", Book I
RIMMON, whose delightful Seat
Was fair DAMASCUS, on the fertil Banks
Of ABBANA and PHARPHAR, lucid streams.
He also against the house of God was bold:
A Leper once he lost and gain'd a King,
AHAZ his sottish Conquerour, whom he drew
Gods Altar to disparage and displace
For one of SYRIAN mode, whereon to burn
His odious offrings, and adore the Gods
Whom he had vanquisht.
- Saki, "Srendi Vashtar"
The Woman indulged in religion once a week at a church near by , and took Contradin with her, but to him the church service was an alien rite in the House of Rimmon.
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