Genesis 32:2
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This [is] God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
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- 2 Sam 2:8 : 8 ¶ But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
- Josh 21:38 : 38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
- Josh 5:14 : 14 And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
- 2 Sam 17:24 : 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
- 1 Kgs 2:8 : 8 And, behold, [thou hast] with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
- Ps 34:7 : 7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
- Ps 148:2 : 2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
- Luke 2:13 : 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
- Song 6:13 : 13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
- Dan 10:20 : 20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.
- Ps 103:21 : 21 Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye] ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
- 1 Kgs 4:14 : 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim:
- 2 Kgs 6:17 : 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
- 2 Sam 17:26-27 : 26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. 27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
- 2 Sam 2:12 : 12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
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