Topic
Mehunims
4 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Chronicles 4:41Easton
And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.
- 2 Chronicles 26:7Easton
And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
- Ezra 2:50Easton
The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
- Nehemiah 7:52Easton
The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
Habitations, (2 Chr. 26:7; R.V. “Meunim,” Vulg. Ammonitae), a people against whom Uzziah waged a successful war. This word is in Hebrew the plural of Ma’on, and thus denotes the Maonites who inhabited the country on the eastern side of the Wady el-Arabah. They are again mentioned in 1 Chr. 4:41 (R.V.), in the reign of King Hezekiah, as a Hamite people, settled in the eastern end of the valley of Gedor, in the wilderness south of Palestine. In this passage the Authorized Version has “habitation,” erroneously following the translation of Luther.
They are mentioned in the list of those from whom the Nethinim were made up (Ezra 2:50; Neh. 7:52).
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.