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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BAAL-HAMON.The unknown site of Solomons vineyard (Son_8:11).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("the owner of a multitude".) Tthe sun god, and a city where Solomon had a vineyard with a multitude of vines. In Mount Ephraim, not far N. of Samaria (compare Isa_28:1; Son_8:11).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ba?al-Ham?on, a place where Solomon is said to have had a vineyard (Son_8:11). There was a place called Hamon, in the tribe of Asher (Jos_19:28), which Ewald thinks was the same as Baal-Hamon. The book of Judith (Jdt_8:3) places a Balamon or Belamon in central Palestine, which suggests another alternative,
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Baal-Hamon. Lieut
Conder suggests (Tent Work, ii, 335) that this is the modern Bel'ameh; but this seems to be the site assigned to Ibleam (q.v.). SEE BEL-MEN.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.