Ajalon

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. A city of Dan

• Joshua 19:42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,

Assigned to the Levites. A city of refuge

• Joshua 21:24 Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon— four cities, together with their pasturelands.
• 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 6:69 Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon, together with their pasturelands.

Amorites of, not exterminated

• 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.

2. A city of Zebulun

• Judges 12:12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and he was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

3. A city of Judah

• 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.
• 2 Chronicles 11:10 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

4. A valley

• Joshua 10:12 On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”