When he saw them, Ya`akov said, *This is God's army.* He called the name of that place Machanayim.
Joshua 21:38 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramot in Gil`ad with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Machanayim with its suburbs, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 he saw them, Ya`akov said, *This is God's army.* He called the name of that place Machanayim.
Then David came to Machanayim. Avshalom passed over the Yarden, he and all the men of Yisra'el with him.
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Machanayim; for he was a very great man.
Now Aviner the son of Ner, captain of Sha'ul's army, had taken Ish-Boshet the son of Sha'ul, and brought him over to Machanayim;
The king of Yisra'el said to his servants, *You know that Ramot Gil`ad is ours, and we are still, and don't take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?*
Ben-Gever, in Ramot Gil`ad (to him [pertained] the towns of Ya'ir the son of Menasheh, which are in Gil`ad; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argov, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramot in Gil`ad with its suburbs, and Machanayim with its suburbs,
[namely], Betzer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Re'uveni; and Ramot in Gil`ad, for the Gadi; and Galon in Bashan, for the Manashi.
and from Cheshbon to Ramat-Hamitzpeh, and Betonim; and from Machanayim to the border of Devir;
Their border was from Machanayim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of `Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Ya'ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:
Beyond the Yarden at Yericho eastward, they assigned Betzer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Re'uven, and Ramot in Gil`ad out of the tribe of Gad, and Galon in Bashan out of the tribe of Menasheh.
Cheshbon with its suburbs, Ya`zer with its suburbs; four cities in all.