Dict: smith - AIJALON, OR AJALON

smith:

AIJALON, OR AJALON - A>@ - (place of gazelles). A city of the Kohathites. kjv@Joshua:21:24; kjv@1Chronicles:6:69) It was a Levitical city and a city of refuge. It was originally allotted to the tribe of Dan, kjv@Joshua:19:42) Authorized Version, AJALON, which tribe, however, was unable to dispossess the Amorites of the place. kjv@Judges:1:35) Aijalon was one of the towns fortified by Reheboam, ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:10) and the last we hear of it is being in the hands of the Philistines. ( kjv@2Chronicles:28:18) Being on the very frontier of the two kingdoms, we can understand how Aijalon should be spoken of sometimes, ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:69) comp. with 1Chr 6:66 As in Ephraim and sometimes, ( kjv@2Chronicles:11:10; kjv@1Samuel:14:31) as in Judah and Benjamin. It is represented by the modern Yalo , a little to the north of the Jaffa road, about 14 miles out of Jerusalem. A broad and beautiful valley near the city of Aijalon over which Joshua commanded the moon to stand still during the pursuit after the battle of Gibeon. kjv@Joshua:10:12) A place in Zebulon, mentioned as the burial-place of Elon, one of the Judges. kjv@Judges:12:12)