Maon

Maon is a settlement named in 3 verses of the Bible. It is most likely identified with Tel Main (high confidence).

Location

Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.

Verses

Joshua

• Joshua 15:55
  Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

Judges

• Judges 10:12
  The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 25:2
  And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

Notes

1. Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
2. Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.