1 Sam 23:24
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the wilderness.
Maon, from which the adjoining mountainous district derived its name, was city in the most southern parts of the tribe of Judah, and a neighbouring town to Carmel.
Hence Nabal (1Sam 25:2) is described as a man of Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and though he might dwell generally in Maon, yet he is styled Nabal the Carmelite, from the place where his estate lay.
Calmet supposes it to be the city Mino�, which Eusebius places in the vicinity of Gaza; and the Moenoemi Castrum, which the Theodosian code places near
Beersheba.
Maon.
1Sam 25:2; Josh 15:55
the south.
1Sam 23:19