Place · City
Aijalon
Named in 9 verses across 5 books, first in Joshua 19:42.
In the Bible
All 9 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Joshua
- Joshua 19:42
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
- Joshua 21:24
Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
Judges
- Judges 1:35
And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.
- Judges 12:12
Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and he was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 14:31
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 6:69
Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon, together with their pasturelands.
- 1 Chronicles 8:13
and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families of the inhabitants of Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath).
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 11:10
Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
- 2 Chronicles 28:18
The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
A city in the tribe of Zebulun (Judg. 12:12), the modern Jalun, three miles north of Cabul.