when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s camp!” So he called that place Mahanaim.
Joshua 21:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the slayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, as the city of refuge for the slayer, and Mahanaim, American Standard Version (1901) And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, Common English Bible From the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead, the refuge city for a killer, and its pastures; Mahanaim and its pastures; Catholic Public Domain Version All the cities of the sons of Merari, by their families and extended families, were twelve. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and kindreds were twelve. |
when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s camp!” So he called that place Mahanaim.
Then David came to Mahanaim, while Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
But Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbaal son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
The king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, yet we are doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?”
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,
Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.
and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,
Their territory extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of King Og of Bashan, and all the settlements of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty towns,
And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four towns.
Heshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands—four towns in all.