Genesis 32:2

WEB

²When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

KJV

²And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

BSB

²When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.

FBV

²When he saw them he said, “This must be God's camp!” He named the place “Two Camps.”

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Extra References

2 Samuel 2:8

⁸Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

Joshua 5:14

¹⁴He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of the LORD’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”

Joshua 21:38

³⁸Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

Psalms 148:2

²Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army!

Luke 2:13

¹³Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God and saying,

Psalms 34:7

⁷The LORD’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

2 Samuel 17:24

²⁴Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

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 the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

1 Kings 4:14

¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

2 Samuel 17:26-27

²⁶Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

²⁷When David had come to Mahanaim, 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,