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Place

Rock

Also known as Rock of Escape

Named in 4 verses across 2 books, first in Joshua 15:55.

The dataset treats this record as another name for, or a duplicate of, Maon.

In the Bible

All 4 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Joshua

1 Samuel

  • 1 Samuel 23:24

    So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,

  • 1 Samuel 23:25

    and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.

  • 1 Samuel 25:2

    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.

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