Adad-Rimmon
Adad-Rimmon
Adad-Rimmon, properly Hadad-Rimmon (A garden of pomegranates), a city in the valley of Jezreel, where was fought the famous battle between King Josiah and Pharaoh-Necho (2Ki 23:29; Zec 12:11). Adad-rimmon was afterwards called Maximianopolis, in honor of the emperor Maximian. It was seventeen Roman miles from Caesarea, and ten miles from Jezreel.