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Madmannah

Meaning: dunghill

This ancient city appears to be located at the modern Menois (aka el-Minyay), 15 miles south-southwest of Gaza (Joshua 15:31; 1 Chronicles 2:49), in the south of the tribal lands of Judah.

Its mentioned in the book of Joshua in a section where the inheritance of the children of Judah is detailed after Israel’s conquest of the land of Canaan. It is named along with various other cities and their villages in Judah’s far south:

1. Kabzeel
2. Eder
3. Jagur
4. Kinah
5. Dimonah
6. Adadah
7. Kedesh
8. Hazor
9. Ithnan
10. Ziph
11. Telem
12. Bealoth
13. Hazor-hadattah
14. Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor)
15. Amam
16. Shema
17. Moladah
18. Hazar-gaddah
19. Heshmon
20. Beth-pelet
21. Hazar-shual
22. Beersheba
23. Biziothiah
24. Baalah
25. Iim
26. Ezem
27. Eltolad
28. Chesil
29. Hormah
30. Ziklag
31. Madmannah
32. Sansannah
33. Lebaoth
34. Shilhim
35. Ain
36. Rimmon

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