Rimmon

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Rimmon The name of a Syrian god worshipped by Naaman in Damascus (2 Kgs. 5: 18) but not in the end exclusively, since he had to share temple space with Yahweh after Naaman had been cured of leprosy by Elisha.

Rimmon was also the name of a place south of Jerusalem (Zech. 14: 10) in which some of the returning exiles settled.

Rimmon in the Bible, a deity worshipped in ancient Damascus. (See also bow down in the house of Rimmon at bow2.)

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