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<p> (Hebrews [[Ba]] il Hamon', בּעִל הָמוֹן ''. Place Of Multitude;'' Sept. Βεελαμών ), a place where Solomon is said to have had an extensive vineyard (&nbsp;Song of Solomon 8:11). Rosenmü ller ''(Alterth.'' I, 2:281) conceives that if this Baal-hamon was the name of a place that actually existed, it may be reasonably supposed identical with Baal-gad or Heliopolis; for Hamon was a chief Phoenician god (Davis, Carthage, p. 256, 262), perhaps the [[Ammon]] of the Eyptians (see &nbsp;Nahum 3:8), whom the [[Greeks]] identialed with [[Jupiter]] ''(Bib. Geog.'' 2, 253). We are not inclined to lay much stress on this conjecture (see Iken, ''Dissert. Philo.'' in loc.), which, however, is adopted by Schwarz ''(Palest.'' p. 61). (See [[Baal-Gad]]). There was a place called ''Hammoan,'' in the tribe of [[Asher]] (&nbsp;Joshua 19:28), which Ewald (Comment. in loc.) thinks was the same as Baal- hamon; but there is little probability in this conjecture. The book of [[Judith]] (8:3) places a [[Balamon]] (Βαλαμών) or ''Belamon (Βελαμών)'' in central Palestine, near Dothaim, and therefore in the mountains of Ephraim, not far north of Samaria. (See [[Balamo]]). If it be the same place (see Gesenius, ''Thes. Heb.'' p. 225), this vineyard may have been in one of the "fat valleys" of the "drunkards of Ephraim, who are overcome with wine," to which allusion is made in &nbsp;Isaiah 28:1. It appears to have been situated among the eminences south-east of Jenin. (See [[Beth-Haggan]]); (See [[Baalim]]) </p>