eglon

2 definitions found

eglon - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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.)

eglon - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Eglon, WV
    Zip code(s): 26716