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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(dwelling). Town in
Judah
(
Josh. 15:55
55
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, (Joshua 15:55)
;
1 Sam. 23:24-25
24
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.
25
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. (1 Samuel 23:24‑25)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
City
in
the
highlands of
Judah
, to the “
wilderness
” of which
David
and his men resorted when pursued by
Saul
(
Josh. 15:55
55
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, (Joshua 15:55)
;
1 Sam. 23:24-25
24
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.
25
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. (1 Samuel 23:24‑25)
;
1 Sam. 25:2
2
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. (1 Samuel 25:2)
). Identified
with
ruins at
Main
, 31° 25' N, 35° 7' E. '
2.
Son
of
Shammai
, a descendant of
Caleb
(
1 Chron. 2:45
45
And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. (1 Chronicles 2:45)
).
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Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
habitation