This document is about Maacah (place). For other homonyms, please refer to the Maacah document.
Maacah (Maacah, place) is a region near Geshur.
Maacah, generally mentioned alongside the neighboring kingdom of Geshur, seems to have been located north of that kingdom and bordered the Bashan region.
Joshua 12:5and his territory included Mount Hermon, Salecah, all Bashan, and half of Gilead, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all the territory of King Sihon of Heshbon.
When the Ammonites went to war with King David, they hired the army of the king of Maacah as mercenaries.
2 Samuel 10:6When the Ammonites realized that they had become odious to David, the Ammonites sent and hired twenty thousand foot soldiers from the Beth-rehob Arameans and the Zobah Arameans, and a thousand men from the king of Maacah, and twelve thousand men from Tob.2 Samuel 10:7When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.2 Samuel 10:8The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, while the Zobah and Rehob Arameans and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.