Rimmon

Rimmon ("pomegranate") was a town in the Negev assigned first to Judah and then to Simeon (Joshua 15:32, 19:7, 1 Chronicles 4:32). More famously, the "Rock of Rimmon" — a cliff or stronghold near the Benjaminite hill country — was the desperate refuge of the six hundred surviving Benjaminite warriors after the rest of Israel nearly annihilated their tribe in the civil war following the outrage at Gibeah. They held out at the Rock of Rimmon for four months until Israel made peace with them and provided wives so the tribe would not perish (Judges 20:45-47, 21:13). The prophet Zechariah names Rimmon as the southern boundary of the future restored land — "from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem" (Zechariah 14:10).