ADAD-RIMMON, or Hadad-Rimmon, a city in the valley of Jezreel, where the fatal battle between Josiah, king of Judah, and Pharaoh-Nee ho, king of Egypt, (2 Kings xxiii. 29; Zech. xii. IL) was fought. Adad-rimmon was afterwards called Maximianopolis, in honor of the emperor Maximian. It is seven teen miles from Caesarea in Palestine, and ten miles from Jezreel. |