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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35275" /> ==
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_3493" /> ==
<p> &nbsp;1. King of Moab. With [[Amalekites]] and [[Ammonites]] crossed the [[Jordan]] and took [[Jericho]] the city of palmtrees, left unwalled, and therefore an easy prey to the foe, because of Joshua's curse in destroying it 60 years before. There (according to Josephus) [[Eglon]] built a palace. For 18 years he oppressed Israel. Ehud, a young [[Israelite]] of Jericho, gained his favor by a present (or in Keil's view presented the king tribute, as in &nbsp;2 Samuel 8:2; &nbsp;2 Samuel 8:6, "gifts" mean), and after dismissing its bearers turned again from "the graven images," or else stone quarries, where he had temporarily withdrawn from the king's reception room, and was cordially admitted by the king into his private summer parlor or cooling apartment. </p> <p> On Ehud's announcing "I have a message from God unto thee," the king rose reverentially to receive it, and was instantly stabbed in the belly by Ehud's dagger in the left hand, and Eglon's fat closed over it. [[Ehud]] retired to Seirath, in Mount Ephraim, and summoning by trumpet [[Israel]] from the E. and W. descended upon the [[Moabites]] and took the fords, not suffering one of 10,000 to escape. So the land had rest for 80 years (&nbsp;Judges 3:12-30). The mode of deliverance, assassination, is not approved by the Spirit of God. [[Scripture]] simply records the fact, and that Ehud was raised up by [[Jehovah]] as Israel's deliverer. His courage, patriotism, and faith are commendable, but not his means of gaining his end. </p> <p> &nbsp;2. An [[Amorite]] town (&nbsp;Joshua 15:39), in the &nbsp;shephelah (low country) of Judah. One of the confederacy of five towns (including Jerusalem), which attacked [[Gibeon]] on its making peace with Joshua; was destroyed with Debit, then its king (Joshua 10). Now Ajian, a "shapeless mass of ruins" (Porter, Handbook), 14 miles from Gaza, on the S. of the great coast plain. </p>
<p> ''''' eg´lon ''''' ( עגלון , <i> ''''' ‛eghlōn ''''' </i> ; Ὀδολλάμ , <i> ''''' Odollám ''''' </i> ): A royal [[Canaanite]] city whose king joined the league headed by [[Adonizedek]] of [[Jerusalem]] against the Gibeonites, which suffered overwhelming defeat at the hands of Joshua (Josh 10). Joshua passed from [[Libnah]] to Lachish, and from [[Lachish]] to [[Eglon]] on his way to [[Hebron]] (&nbsp;Joshua 10:31 ). It was in the [[Shephelah]] of Judah (&nbsp;Joshua 15:39 ). The name seems to be preserved in that of <i> ''''' Khirbet ‛Ajlān ''''' </i> , about 10 miles West of <i> ''''' Beit Jibrı̄n ''''' </i> . Professor Petrie, however, thinks that the site of <i> ''''' Tell Nejı̄leh ''''' </i> better suits the requirements. While <i> ''''' Khirbet ‛Ajlān ''''' </i> is a comparatively modern site, the city at <i> ''''' Tell Nejı̄leh ''''' </i> must have been contemporary with that at <i> ''''' Tell el ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' Ḥesy ''''' </i> (Lachish). It lies fully three miles Southeast of <i> ''''' Tell el ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' Ḥesy ''''' </i> . </p>
       
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50856" /> ==
<p> <strong> EGLON </strong> . King of Moab, under whose leadership the Ammonites and Amalekites joined with the Moabites in fighting and defeating the Israelites. The latter ‘served,’ <em> i.e. </em> paid tribute to, Eglon for eighteen years. Towards the end of this period Ehud assassinated Eglon, and brought to an end the [[Moabite]] ascendency over Israel (&nbsp; Judges 3:12 ff.). </p> <p> W. O. E. Oesterley. </p> <p> <strong> EGLON </strong> . A town near Lachish, mentioned only in connexion with the campaign of Joshua. Its king, Debir, joined the coalition against the [[Gibeonites]] (&nbsp; Joshua 10:3 ), and after the reduction of [[Lachish]] Joshua captured and destroyed it (&nbsp; Joshua 10:34 f.). The site is probably <em> Tell Nejileh </em> , near Tell el-Hesy (Lachish); the neighbouring <em> Khurbeh ‘Ajlan </em> better preserves the name, but the site is of no great antiquity. </p> <p> R. A. S. Macalister. </p>
       
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_31369" /> ==
<li> A city in Judah, near Lachish (&nbsp;Joshua 15:39 ). It was destroyed by (&nbsp;Joshua 10:5,6 ). It has been identified with Tell Nejileh, 6 miles south of Tell Hesy or Ajlan, north-west of Lachish. (See [[Lachish]] .) <div> <p> &nbsp;Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated [[Bible]] Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> &nbsp;Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Eglon'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/e/eglon.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>
       
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_72480" /> ==
<p> &nbsp;Eg'lon. &nbsp;(calf-like). </p> <p> 1. A king of the Moabites, &nbsp;Judges 3:12, ff., who, aided by the Ammonites and the Amelekites, crossed the Joran and took "the city of palm trees." (B.C. 1359). Here, according to Josephus, he built himself a palace, and continued, for eighteen years, to oppress the children of Israel, who paid him tribute. He was slain by Ehud. &nbsp;See [[Ehud]]&nbsp;. </p> <p> 2. A town of Judah, in the low country. &nbsp;Joshua 15:39. The name survives in the modern &nbsp;Ajlan, a shapeless mass of ruins, about 10 miles from [[Eleutheropolis]] and 14 from Gaza, on the south of the great maritime plain. </p>
       
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_40020" /> ==
&nbsp;Judges 3:12 <p> 2. A [[Canaanite]] city whose king entered an alliance with four other Canaanite rulers against Gibeon (&nbsp;Joshua 10:3 ). The Gibeonites had made a treaty with Israel (&nbsp;Joshua 9:1 ). Subsequently, Eglon was captured by the Israelite army under Joshua. It became a part of the territory of the tribe of Judah. Most scholars long held that the modern site of tell el-Hesi was the location of ancient Eglon. More recently, however, some have contended for tell Eton. Both places are to the southwest of Lachish. See [[Joshua]]; Judges; [[Ehud]] . </p>
       
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70005" /> ==
<p> &nbsp;Eglon (&nbsp;ĕg'lon), &nbsp;calf-like. 1. King of the Moabites, who held the [[Israelites]] in bondage eighteen years. &nbsp;Judges 3:14. He formed an alliance with the Ammonites and Amalekites, and took possession of Jericho, where he resided, and where he was afterward assassinated, by Ehud. See Ehud. 2. An Amorite town in Judah. &nbsp;Joshua 10:3-5; &nbsp;Joshua 15:39; now &nbsp;ʾAjlan, a hill of ruins, ten miles northeast of Gaza. </p>
       
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65970" /> ==
<p> 1. One of the five confederate cities which attacked Gibeon, but were conquered by Joshua. &nbsp;Joshua 10:3-37; &nbsp;Joshua 12:12; &nbsp;Joshua 15:39 . Identified with the ruins at <i> Ajlan, </i> 31 35' N, 34 43' E . </p> <p> 2. King of the Moabites, who, aided by [[Ammon]] and Amalek, crossed the Jordan and captured the city of palm trees, or Jericho, and ruled over Israel eighteen years. He was stabbed by Ehud in his summer parlour. &nbsp;Judges 3:12-17 . </p>
       
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15999" /> ==
<p> A king of Moab, who, with the help of Ammon and Amalek, subdued the southern and eastern tribes of the Jews. He made Jericho his seat of government, and held his power eighteen years, but was then slain by Ehud, and his people expelled, &nbsp;Judges 3:12-31 . </p>
       
== Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80621" /> ==
<p> a king of Moab, who oppressed the Israelites, and was slain by Ehud, &nbsp;Judges 3:14; &nbsp;Judges 3:21 . It is thought to have been a common name of the kings of Moab, as [[Abimelech]] was of the Philistines. </p>
       
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_38250" /> ==
<p> (Hebrews Eglon', &nbsp;עֵגְלוֹן &nbsp;, place of &nbsp;heifers, q.d. &nbsp;vituline), the name of a man, and also of two places. </p> <p> &nbsp;1. (Sept. &nbsp;Ε᾿γλώμ, [[Josephus]] &nbsp;Ε᾿γλών,Vulgate &nbsp;Eglon.) An early king of the Moabites (&nbsp;Judges 3:12 sq.), who, aided by the Ammonites and the Amalekites, crossed the Jordan and took "the city of palm-trees," or Jericho (Josephus). B.C. 1527. Here he built himself a palace (Josephus, Ant. 5:4, 1 sq.), and continued for eighteen years to oppress the children of Israel, who paid him tribute (Josephus). Whether he resided at Jericho permanently, or only during the summer months (&nbsp;Judges 3:20; Josephus), he seems to have formed a familiar intimacy (&nbsp;συνήθης, Josephus, not Judg.) with Ehud, a young Israelite &nbsp;(&nbsp;νεανίας, Josephus) who lived in Jericho (Josephus, not Judg.), and who, by means of repeated presents, became a favorite courtier of the monarch. Eglon subdued the Israelites beyond the Jordan, and the southern tribes on this side the river, and made Jericho the seat, or one of the seats, of his government. This subjection to a power always present must have been more galling to the Israelites than any they had previously suffered. At length (B.C. 1509) they were delivered, through the instrumentality of Ehud, who slew the Moabitish king (&nbsp;Judges 3:12-31). (See [[Ehud]]). </p> <p> &nbsp;2. (Sept. &nbsp;Ε᾿γλώμ v.r. &nbsp;Αἰλάμ &nbsp;, but in &nbsp;Joshua 10:1-43, &nbsp;Ο᾿δολλάμ; [[Vulgate]] &nbsp;Eglon, Aglon.) A city in the maritime plain of Judah, near Lachish (&nbsp;Joshua 15:39), formerly one of the royal cities of the [[Canaanites]] (&nbsp;Joshua 12:12). Its Almoritish king [[Debir]] (q.v.) formed a confederacy with the neighboring princes to assist Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, in attacking Gibeon, because that city had made peace with Joshua and the Israelites (&nbsp;Joshua 10:3-4). Joshua met the confederated kings near Gibeon and routed them (&nbsp;Joshua 10:11). Eglon was soon after visited by Joshua and destroyed (&nbsp;Joshua 10:34-35). [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]] &nbsp;(Onomast. s.v. &nbsp;Ε᾿γλώμ, Eglon) erroneously identify it with &nbsp;Odollam or ADULLAM (See [[Adullam]]) (q.v.), and say it was still "a large village," ten R. miles (Jerome, twelve) east of Eleutheropolis, being misled by the unaccountable reading of the Sept. as above. On the road from Eleutheropolis to Gaza, nine miles from the former and twelve from the latter, are the ruins of Ajlan, which mark the site of the ancient Eglon (Robinson, Researches, 2:392). The site is now completely desolate. The ruins are mere shapeless heaps of rubbish, strewn over a low, white mound (Porter, Handb. for Syria, page 262). The absence of more imposing remains is easily accounted for. The private houses, like those of Damascus, were built of sun-dried bricks; and the temples and fortifications of the soft calcareous stone of the district, which soon crumbles away. A large mound of rubbish, strewn with stones and pieces of pottery, is all we can now expect to mark the site of an ancient city in this plain (Van de Velde, Narrative, 2:188; Thomson, Land and Book, 2:356). </p> <p> &nbsp;3. Another important place of this name (&nbsp;עגלון ), according to Schwarz &nbsp;(Palest; p. 235), is mentioned in Talmudical authorities as situated within the bounds of Gad. He identifies it with the present village &nbsp;Ajlun, one mile east of Kulat er-Rubud, or [[Wady]] Rejib, which runs parallel with Jebel Ajlun on the south (see Robinson's &nbsp;Map, and comp. &nbsp;Researches, 2:121). The village is built on both sides of the narrow rivulet Jenne, and contains nothing remarkable except a few ancient mosques (Burckhardt, Syria, page 266). </p>
       
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15580" /> ==
<p> Eg´lon, a king of Moab, who, assisted by the Ammonites and Amalekites, subdued the Israelites beyond the Jordan, and the southern tribes on this side the river, and made Jericho the seat, or one of the seats, of his government. This subjection to a power always present must have been more galling to the Israelites than any they had previously suffered. It lasted eighteen years, when (B.C. 1428) they were delivered, through the instrumentality of Ehud, who slew the Moabitish king . </p>
          
          
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<ref name="term_35275"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/eglon Eglon from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
<ref name="term_3493"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/eglon+(2) Eglon from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_50856"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/eglon Eglon from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_31369"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/eglon Eglon from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_72480"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/eglon Eglon from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_40020"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/eglon Eglon from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_70005"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/people-s-dictionary-of-the-bible/eglon Eglon from People's Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_65970"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/eglon Eglon from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_15999"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/eglon Eglon from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_80621"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/watson-s-biblical-theological-dictionary/eglon Eglon from Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_38250"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/eglon Eglon from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_15580"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/eglon Eglon from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref>
          
          
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [1]

eg´lon ( עגלון , ‛eghlōn  ; Ὀδολλάμ , Odollám ): A royal Canaanite city whose king joined the league headed by Adonizedek of Jerusalem against the Gibeonites, which suffered overwhelming defeat at the hands of Joshua (Josh 10). Joshua passed from Libnah to Lachish, and from Lachish to Eglon on his way to Hebron ( Joshua 10:31 ). It was in the Shephelah of Judah ( Joshua 15:39 ). The name seems to be preserved in that of Khirbet ‛Ajlān , about 10 miles West of Beit Jibrı̄n . Professor Petrie, however, thinks that the site of Tell Nejı̄leh better suits the requirements. While Khirbet ‛Ajlān is a comparatively modern site, the city at Tell Nejı̄leh must have been contemporary with that at Tell el - Ḥesy (Lachish). It lies fully three miles Southeast of Tell el - Ḥesy .

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  1. ↑ Eglon from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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