Rimmon (Judges 20)
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Other places named Rimmon: Rimmon (Joshua 15), Rimmon (Joshua 19).
| Type | natural area |
|---|---|
| Most likely | El Jai Cave (low confidence) |
| Coordinates | 31.848° N, 35.305° E |
| Mentioned in | 4 verses |
| First mention | Judges 20:45 |
Rimmon (Judges 20) is a natural area named in 4 verses of the Bible. It is most likely identified with El Jai Cave (low confidence; 3 other proposals below).
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.
| Identification | Confidence | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|
| El Jai Cave | low (29%) | 31.848° N, 35.305° E |
| Rammun | low (24%) | 31.930° N, 35.299° E |
| along Wadi Rummananeh | very low (5%) | 31.895° N, 35.322° E |
| plateau east of Rammun | very low (1%) | 31.960° N, 35.348° E |
Verses
Judges
- Judges 20:45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
- Judges 20:47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
- Judges 21:13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 10:27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
Notes
- Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.