and when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God's army!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Joshua 21:38 - Revised Standard Version and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the slayer, Mahanaim with its pasture lands, 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. |
and when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God's army!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very wealthy man.
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;
And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the 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 pasture lands, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,
Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,
Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,
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 pasture lands, and Mepha-ath with its pasture lands—four cities;
Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands—four cities in all.