Eglon

3 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Eglon
     the bullock; place of heifers. (1.) Chieftain or king of one of
     the Moabite tribes (Judg. 3:12-14). Having entered into an
     alliance with Ammon and Amalek, he overran the trans-Jordanic
     region, and then crossing the Jordan, seized on Jericho, the
     "city of palm trees," which had been by this time rebuilt, but


     not as a fortress. He made this city his capital, and kept
     Israel in subjection for eighteen years. The people at length
     "cried unto the Lord" in their distress, and he "raised them up
     a deliverer" in Ehud (q.v.), the son of Gera, a Benjamite.
     
       (2.) A city in Judah, near Lachish (Josh. 15:39). It was
     destroyed by 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}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Eglon, same as Eglah
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Eglon, WV
    Zip code(s): 26716