Atomic Bible

Rock where Benjamites fled after battle

Rimmon

Named in 3 verses of Judges, first in Judges 20:45.

רִמּוֹן, רִמּוֹנוֹRimmon

The name means “exalted; pomegranate.” Hitchcock's Bible Names, 1869

About Rimmon Written by AI

Rimmon, meaning "pomegranate," was a rock or cliff where 600 Benjamite men fled after a battle with the other Israelite tribes. The conflict arose when the Benjamites refused to surrender the men of Gibeah who had committed a heinous crime (Jdg. 19-20). In the ensuing battle, the Benjamites were defeated, and the survivors escaped to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed for four months (Jdg. 20:45, 47). Later, the Israelites sent a peace delegation to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon, urging them to return (Jdg. 21:13). The exact location of the rock of Rimmon is uncertain, but it was likely situated in the territory of Benjamin, north of Jerusalem.

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Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897

This entry is on the name Rimmon, and may cover more than one person or place by that name.

Pomegranate. (1.) A man of Beeroth (2 Sam. 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Josh. 9:17.)

(2.) A Syrian idol, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18.

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(3.) One of the “uttermost cities” of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon (Josh. 15:21, 32; 19:7; 1 Chr. 4:32). In Josh. 15:32 Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in 19:7 and 1 Chr. 4:32 (comp. Neh. 11:29) the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain-Rimmon=the spring of the pomegranate. It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of Hebron.

(4.) “Rock of,” to which the Benjamites fled (Judg. 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 Rummon, “on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley,” supposed to be the site of Ai.

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, third edition (1897), public domain, from CrossWire. Shown as written; its Scripture quotes are from older translations.

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Where the Bible names it

  1. Judges 20:45

    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.

  2. Judges 20:47

    But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

  3. Judges 21:13

    Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.

From STEPBible's TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0): names, family, references and the AI written article. Verse text is the BSB.