When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
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- KJV And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- BSB When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
- NKJV When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- NASB And when he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
- NLT When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is God’s camp!” So he named the place Mahanaim.
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- 2 Sam 2:8Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
- Josh 21:38Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
- Josh 5:14He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
- 2 Sam 17:24Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
- Luke 2:13Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,
- Ps 34:7Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
- 1 Kgs 2:8“Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’
- Ps 148:2Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army!
- 2 Sam 2:12Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
- Dan 10:20Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go out, behold, the prince of Greece shall come.
- 2 Sam 17:26–27Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
- Ps 103:21Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
- 2 Kgs 6:17Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
- Song 6:13Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
- 1 Kgs 4:14Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
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