Dict: smith - ARMAGEDDON

smith:

ARMAGEDDON - A>@ - (the hill or city of Megiddo). kjv@Revelation:16:16) The scene of the struggle of good and evil is suggested by that battle-field, the plain of Esdraelon, which was famous for two great victories, of Barak over the Canaanites and of Gideon over the Midianites; and for two great disasters, the deaths of Saul and Josiah. Hence it signifies in Revelation a place of great slaughter, the scene of a terrible retribution upon the wicked. The Revised Version gives the name as Har
- Magedon , i.e. the hill (as Ar is the city) of Megiddo .
ED.)