Dict: smith - MAHANAIM

smith:

MAHANAIM - M>@ - a town on the east of the Jordan. The name signifies two hosts or two camps,and was given to it by Jacob, because he there met "the angels of God." kjv@Genesis:32:1-2) We next meet with it in the records of the conquest. kjv@Joshua:13:26 kjv@Joshua:13:30) It was within the territory of Gad, kjv@Joshua:21:38-39) and therefore on the south side of the torrent Jabbok. The town with its "suburbs" was allotted to the service of the Merarite Levites. kjv@Joshua:21:39; kjv@1Chronicles:6:80) Mahanaim had become in the time of the monarchy a place of mark. (2 Samuel 2:8,12) David took refuge there when driven out of the western part of his kingdom by Absalom. (2 Samuel 17:24; kjv@Kings:2:8) Mahanaim was the seat of one of Solomon’s commissariat officers. (Kings:4:14) and it is alluded to in the song which bears his name. ch. (Solomon kjv@6:13) There is a place called Mahneh among the villages of the part of Jordan, through its exact position is not certain.