Maon

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

A city allotted to the tribe of Judah

• Joshua 15:55 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

The place where Nabal lived

• 1 Samuel 25:2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

David (with his insurgents) encamps near

• 1 Samuel 23:24–25 So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon, and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he p…

Uzziah engages in war against the people of (called Mehunims)

• 2 Chronicles 26:7 God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.