Where was 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). Modern identification: Tell edh Dhahab el Gharbi.

Mahanaim is represented in the local geography layer as Tell edh Dhahab el Gharbi. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Genesis 32:2 and is mentioned across 6 books, with 16 verse references collected into the glossary index.