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<p> '''Mahanaim''' (''mâ'ha-nâ'im'' ), ''two camps.'' [[A]] town east of the Jordan, named by Jacob. &nbsp;Genesis 32:1-2. It was assigned to the Levites, &nbsp;Joshua 13:26; &nbsp;Joshua 13:30; &nbsp;Joshua 21:38; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 6:80, and lay within the territory of Gad, north of the torrent Jabbok. Mahanaim became in the time of the monarchy a place of mark. &nbsp;2 Samuel 2:8; &nbsp;2 Samuel 2:12; &nbsp;2 Samuel 19:32. Abner fixed Ishbosheth's residence there, and David took refuge in it when driven out of the western part of his kingdom by Absalom. &nbsp;2 Samuel 17:24; &nbsp;1 Kings 2:8. Mahanaim was the seat of one of Solomon's commissariat officers, &nbsp;1 Kings 4:14, and it is alluded to in his &nbsp;Song of Solomon 6:13. Dr. Merrill locates Mahanaim in the Jordan valley, six miles north of the Jabbok, at a ruin called Suleikhat. </p>