- verses
- 10
- first named
- Joshua 10:12
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 28:18
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.84°N · 35.02°E
Yalo (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 6 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Aijalon in the text
Aijalon was a city in the territory of the tribe of Dan, located in the Shephelah (foothills) region of Judah. It is most famously known as the place where Joshua commanded the moon to stand still during the battle against the Amorite kings (Joshua 10:12). The city was allotted to the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:42) and later designated as a Levitical city for the Kohathites (Joshua 21:24; 1Ch.6.69).
After the conquest of Canaan, the Amorites continued to dwell in Aijalon, and the Danites failed to drive them out completely (Judges 1:35). Elon, a judge of Israel, was buried in Aijalon (Judges 12:12). During Saul's reign, the Israelites pursued the Philistines as far as Aijalon (1Sa.14.31). Some descendants of Benjamin, including the family of Beriah, lived in Aijalon (1Ch.8.13).
King Rehoboam of Judah fortified Aijalon as part of his defensive strategy (2Ch.11.10). Later, during the reign of King Ahaz, the Philistines captured Aijalon and settled there (2Ch.28.18). The city is generally identified with the modern village of Yalo, about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Jerusalem.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Aijalon is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
10 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (3), Judges (2), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Chronicles (2) and 2 Chronicles (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 10, across 5 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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