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Baanah

Family

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

One of the two sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, a captain in Saul’s army. He and his brother Rechab assassinated Ishbosheth (2 Sam. 4:2), and were on this account slain by David, and their mutilated bodies suspended over the pool at Hebron (5, 6, 12).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 4 verses

2 Samuel: 4:2, 4:5, 4:6, 4:9

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.