Bible Person
Meaning: exalted; pomegranate · Male · 3 cross references
Rimmon of Beeroth is the father of Rechab and Baanah, the men who murder Ish-bosheth during the struggle after Saul's death. He appears through a family line tied to treachery in the unstable early monarchy. First appears in 2 Sam 4:2.1
AI summary: Rimmon matters because the cross references locate his household behind one of the most chilling opportunistic killings in the contest for Saul's former kingdom. Though the sons carry out the deed, their identity as sons of Rimmon of Beeroth fixes the event within a known social setting and exposes the fractured loyalties of the time. Taken together, the material presents Rimmon as the father of assassins whose house is remembered in the violent disorder preceding David's full rule.1
Central Figure
Rimmon
Meaning: exalted; pomegranate
A man of Beeroth (2 Sam.
A man of Beeroth (2 Sam. 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Josh. 9:17.) 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.