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Ajalon
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
or Aj´alon, a town and valley in the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:42), which was given to the Levites (Joshua 21:24; 1 Chronicles 6:69). It was not far from Bethshemesh (2 Chronicles 28:18); it was one of the places which Rehoboam fortified (2 Chronicles 11:10), and among the strongholds which the Philistines took from Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:18). But the town, or rather the valley to which the town gave name, derives its chief renown from the circumstance that when Joshua, in pursuit of the five kings, arrived at some point near Upper Beth-horon, looking back upon Gibeon and down upon the noble valley before him, he uttered the celebrated command: 'Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon' (Joshua 10:12). The site of the town has been identified with the small village of Yâlo near Beit Ur (Beth-horon), and a broad wady to the north of it appears to be the valley of the same name.
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Ajalon'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/a/ajalon.html.
