A town in the hill country of the territory of Judah; residence of Nabal and his wife Abigail, who later married David.
About Maon
Son of Shammai, and Bethzur’s father (1 Chr 2:45). He was either the founding father of the people of Bethzur and/or the founder of the city. His descendants are perhaps the Maonites of Judges 10:12.
Key References
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
All Scripture References (5)
Joshua (1)
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
Judges (1)
Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?
1 Samuel (3)
So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,
and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.