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ADAD-RIMMON, or Hadad-Rimmon, a City in the Valley of Jesreel. There the fatal Battle was fought, wherein Josiah King of Judah was killed by the forces of 2 Kings xxiii. 29.Pharaoh-Necho King of Egypt. Adad-rimmon was afterwards called Maximianopolis1, in honour of the Emperor Maximian. It is seventeen miles from Cæsarea in Palestine, and ten miles from Jezreel2.
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