Bible Encyclopedias
Adad-Rimmon

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

Adad-Rim´mon, properly Hadad-Rimmon (A garden of pomegranates), a city in the valley of Jezreel, where was fought the famous battle between King Josiah and Pharaoh-Necho (2 Kings 23:29; Zechariah 12:11). Adad-rimmon was afterwards called Maximianopolis, in honor of the emperor Maximian. It was seventeen Roman miles from Caesarea, and ten miles from Jezreel.

 

 

 

 

Bibliography Information
Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Adad-Rimmon'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​a/adad-rimmon.html.