Mahanaim

Identified as

Tell edh Dhahab el Gharbi

Certainty

Likely (65% of scholarship) · 5 other possible locations

Coordinates

32.186° N, 35.687° E

Mahanaim

• מַחֲנַיִם·Mahanaim

1. Genesis 32:2
   When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
2. Joshua 13:26
   …the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
3. Joshua 13:30
   The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;
4. Joshua 21:38
   And from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim,
5. 2 Samuel 2:8
   Meanwhile, Abner son of Ner, the commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth, moved him to Mahanaim,
6. 2 Samuel 2:12
   One day Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
7. 2 Samuel 2:29
   And all that night Abner and his men marched through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, marched all morning, and arrived at Mahanaim.
8. 2 Samuel 17:24
   Then David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
9. 2 Samuel 17:27
   When David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
10. 2 Samuel 19:32
    Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
11. 1 Kings 2:8
    Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: ‘I will never put you to the sword.’
12. 1 Kings 4:14
    Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;
13. 1 Chronicles 6:80
    And from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, Mahanaim,