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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
  

















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