Aijalon
Town · today Yalo
Location likely Yalo: about 21 km (13 miles, 110 furlongs) west of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- Yalo Likely
- Tell el Kokah Possible
Ajalon in the Bible Dictionary · Another Aijalon (town · Judges 12:12)
Named in 8 Verses
- Joshua 19:42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
- Joshua 21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
- Judges 1:35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
- 1 Samuel 14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
- 1 Chronicles 6:69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:
- 1 Chronicles 8:13 Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:
- 2 Chronicles 11:10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
- 2 Chronicles 28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
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