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megiddo

megiddo


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Megiddo 
  place  of  troops,  originally  one  of  the  royal  cities  of  the 
  Canaanites  (Josh.  12:21),  belonged  to  the  tribe  of  Manasseh 
  (Judg.  1:27),  but  does  not  seem  to  have  been  fully  occupied  by 
  the  Israelites  till  the  time  of  Solomon  (1  Kings  4:12;  9:15). 
 
  The  valley  or  plain  of  Megiddo  was  part  of  the  plain  of 
  Esdraelon,  the  great  battle-field  of  Palestine.  It  was  here 
  Barak  gained  a  notable  victory  over  Jabin,  the  king  of  Hazor, 
  whose  general,  Sisera,  led  on  the  hostile  army.  Barak  rallied 
  the  warriors  of  the  northern  tribes,  and  under  the  encouragement 
  of  Deborah  (q.v.),  the  prophetess,  attacked  the  Canaanites  in 
  the  great  plain.  The  army  of  Sisera  was  thrown  into  complete 
  confusion,  and  was  engulfed  in  the  waters  of  the  Kishon,  which 
  had  risen  and  overflowed  its  banks  (Judg.  4:5). 
 
  Many  years  after  this  (B.C.  610),  Pharaohnecho  II.,  on  his 
  march  against  the  king  of  Assyria,  passed  through  the  plains  of 
  Philistia  and  Sharon;  and  King  Josiah,  attempting  to  bar  his 
  progress  in  the  plain  of  Megiddo,  was  defeated  by  the  Egyptians. 
  He  was  wounded  in  battle,  and  died  as  they  bore  him  away  in  his 
  chariot  towards  Jerusalem  (2  Kings  23:29;  2  Chr.  35:22-24),  and 
  all  Israel  mourned  for  him  So  general  and  bitter  was  this 
  mourning  that  it  became  a  proverb,  to  which  Zechariah  (12:11, 
  12)  alludes.  Megiddo  has  been  identified  with  the  modern 
  el-Lejjun,  at  the  head  of  the  Kishon,  under  the  north-eastern 
  brow  of  Carmel,  on  the  south-western  edge  of  the  plain  of 
  Esdraelon,  and  9  miles  west  of  Jezreel.  Others  identify  it  with 
  Mujedd'a,  4  miles  south-west  of  Bethshean,  but  the  question  of 
  its  site  is  still  undetermined. 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Megiddo,  his  precious  fruit;  declaring  a  message