2 Immediately Jacob said, when he saw them: “The camp of God this is!”+ Hence he called the name of that place Ma·ha·naʹim.*+

38 And out of the tribe of Gad,+ the city of refuge for the manslayer, namely, Raʹmoth in Gilʹe·ad,+ and its pasture ground, and Ma·ha·naʹim+ and its pasture ground,

8 As for Abʹner+ the son of Ner the chief of the army that had belonged to Saul, he took Ish-boʹsheth,+ Saul’s son, and proceeded to bring him across* to Ma·ha·naʹim,+

24 As for David, he came to Ma·ha·naʹim,+ and Abʹsa·lom himself crossed the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.