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Home of the Maonites

Home of the Maonites


‎The Maonites, also known as the Meunim or Mehunim, lived around the site of the village pictured here, southeast of the Jordan Valley and of Petra in modern Jordan. They may have been a clan of Edom, and are listed as a people that oppressed Israel (Judg 10:12). Though the Israelites apparently exterminated them from their home area (1 Chr 4:41), Mehunim are listed among the Nethinim, hereditary temple servants, that returned from Babylonian exile in Ezra’s time (Ezra 2:43, 50).
‎Judg 10:12, 1 Chr. 4:41, 2 Chr 26:7, Ezra 2:43, 50

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