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Ajalon
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Ajalon (ăj-a-lon), or Aijalon (âi'ja-lŏn), place of gazelles. 1. A town in the tribe of Dan, assigned to the Levites, sons of Kohath, Joshua 19:42; Joshua 21:24; Judges 1:35, and a city of refuge. It was not far from Timnath, and was taken by the Philistines from Ahaz. 2 Chronicles 28:18. It lay on the south side of a fine valley, not far from the valley of Gibeon, and is recognized in the modern village of Yalo, near the road to Jaffa, some 14 miles from Jerusalem. The valley is the place where Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still, and they obeyed him. Joshua 10:12; see also 1 Samuel 14:31. 2. A town in Benjamin, some three miles east of Bethel. It was fortified by Rehoboam. 2 Chronicles 11:10. Some regard this as the same place as the above, in possession of different tribes at different times. 1 Chronicles 6:66; 1 Chronicles 6:69. 3. In the tribe of Zebulun, the place of Elon's burial. Judges 12:12.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Ajalon'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/a/ajalon.html. 1893.
