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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mahanaim
     two camps, a place near the Jabbok, beyond Jordan, where Jacob
     was met by the "angels of God," and where he divided his retinue
     into "two hosts" on his return from Padan-aram (Gen. 32:2). This
     name was afterwards given to the town which was built at that
     place. It was the southern boundary of Bashan (Josh. 13:26, 30),


     and became a city of the Levites (21:38). Here Saul's son
     Ishbosheth reigned (2 Sam. 2:8, 12), while David reigned at
     Hebron. Here also, after a troubled reign, Ishbosheth was
     murdered by two of his own bodyguard (2 Sam. 4:5-7), who brought
     his head to David at Hebron, but were, instead of being
     rewarded, put to death by him for their cold-blooded murder.
     Many years after this, when he fled from Jerusalem on the
     rebellion of his son Absalom, David made Mahanaim, where
     Barzillai entertained him, his headquarters, and here he
     mustered his forces which were led against the army that had
     gathered around Absalom. It was while sitting at the gate of
     this town that tidings of the great and decisive battle between
     the two hosts and of the death of his son Absalom reached him,
     when he gave way to the most violent grief (2 Sam. 17:24-27).
     
       The only other reference to Mahanaim is as a station of one of
     Solomon's purveyors (1 Kings 4:14). It has been identified with
     the modern Mukhumah, a ruin found in a depressed plain called
     el-Bukie'a, "the little vale," near Penuel, south of the Jabbok,
     and north-east of es-Salt.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Mahanaim, tents; two fields; two armies
  

















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