Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness which thou hast shown to thy servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
and when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God's army!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Now Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies?
and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,