Topic
Maon
5 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Samuel 23:24Easton · Smith · Nave David (with his insurgents) encamps near
And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
- 1 Samuel 23:25Easton · Smith · Nave David (with his insurgents) encamps near
Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
- Joshua 15:55Smith · Nave A city allotted to the tribe of Judah
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
- 1 Samuel 25:2Easton · Nave The place where Nabal lived
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 2 Chronicles 26:7Nave Uzziah engages in war against the people of (called Mehunims)
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
Habitation, a town in the tribe of Judah, about 7 miles south of Hebron, which gave its name to the wilderness, the district round the conical hill on which the town stood. Here David hid from Saul, and here Nabal had his possessions and his home (1 Sam. 23:24, 25; 25:2). “Only some small foundations of hewn stone, a square enclosure, and several cisterns are now to be seen at Maon. Are they the remains of Nabal’s great establishment?” The hill is now called Tell M’ain.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.