Place
Mahanaim
Transjordan refuge
Transjordan place associated with Jacob and later with 's flight from Absalom.
Who or what is this?
Town in east of the whose name ("two camps") commemorates 's vision of angels meeting him there as he returns from Paddan-aram to face . makes it the seat of Ish-bosheth's short-lived rule over Israel after Saul's death, and flees there during 's revolt, where Barzillai, Shobi, and supply him with provisions and the decisive battle is fought in the nearby forest of Ephraim. later assigns Mahanaim to one of his twelve district governors.
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Modern location: Tell edh Dhahab el Gharbi. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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