Encyclopedia of The Bible – En-Rimmon
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En-Rimmon

EN-RIMMON ĕn rĭm’ ən (עֵ֥ין רִמֹּ֛ון, spring of the pomegranate). A village resettled after the exile (Neh 11:29). Joshua 15:32 (RSV Rimmon); 19:7 (RSV En-rimmon) 1 Chronicles 4:32 mentions two places, Ain and Rimmon in the same area, first allotted to Judah and then transferred to Simeon. Since the site has not been excavated, it is not clear whether the name refers to two small settlements which later coalesced, or whether, as seems far more likely, one place has been divided into two by a scribal error. It is possibly also the Rimmon of Zechariah 14:10. It is generally idenified with Khirbet Umm er-Rumamin nine m. N of Beer-sheba.