HADAD-RIMMON aitn-rri ; sept. Korerds boi3vos.). This place is only mentioned in one pas sage of Scripture, and there it is introduced inci dentally—' In that day there shall be great lamen tation in Jerusalem, as the lamentation of Hadad rimmon in the valley of Me,„rriddon' (Zech. xii. Reference is manifestly made to the mourning for the death of king Josiah, who fell in battle against Pharaoh-Necho (2 Kings xxiii. 29 ; 2 Chron. xxxv. 20-23) ; though others have understood it differ ently (see Poole, Sjimopsis, ad loc.) Jerome says that in his day Hadad-rimmon was called Maxi miaitopolis ( Comment. in Zachariani, ch. xii. 1), which he tells us was in the plain near Jezreel (Coninient. in Osee, ch. i. 5). The yernsalem Itine rary locates Megiddo seventeen miles from Cae sarea, and ten from Jezreel (ed. Wesseling, p. 586). This would indicate a site at or near Lejjfin, which accordingly von Raumer would identify with Maxi rnianopolis (Palavtina, p. 4.02, 3d ed.) But Dr. Robinson has shewn that Lei* is the Roman Lesia, and the Hebrew Megiddo (Bib. Res. ii. 329,
sq.); and the same city could scarcely have had two Roman names given to it. One great road from Egypt to northern Syria passed through the low ridge which separates Sharon from Esdraelon, and enters the latter plain a short distance to the east of Lejjtin. Here Josiah rashly attempted to bar the progress of the Egyptian army while defil ing into the great plain. Hadad and Rimmon were both names of Syrian deities ; the city, there fore, appears to have been an ancient Syrian strong hold, perhaps intended to defend the road. At it the king of Judah fell, and here the first wail of that lamentation was raised, which was afterwards renewed at Jerusalem (Stanley, S. and P., p. 339). About four miles south of Lejjfin is a small village called Rumnufnelz, which Van de Velde identifies with Hadad-rimmon (Memoir of Map, p. 333) ; but its position among the hills, and a considerable distance from the great road, does not accord with the above specifications.—J. L. P.