En-rimmon

En-rimmon is one of the Judean villages occupied by returnees in the resettlement that follows the exile. It appears in the geographic catalogue at the close of the Nehemiah list, where the writer counts off the towns where some of the sons of Judah took up residence outside Jerusalem.

A Judean Village in the Resettlement

The list runs through the southern country: Kiriath-arba, Dibon, Jekabzeel, Jeshua, Moladah, Beth-pelet, Hazar-shual, Beer-sheba, Ziklag, Meconah — and then "and in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth, Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its towns" (Neh 11:29-30). The summary closes the catalogue: "So they encamped from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom" (Neh 11:30). The towns named between those two boundary-points form the inhabited southern extent of post-exilic Judah, and En-rimmon is one of them — repopulated, named, and counted in the survey of returned settlement.