place · also Armageddon
Megiddo
מְגִדּוֹἈρμαγεδδών
Megiddo, a strategically important city in the Jezreel Valley (Joshua 12:21; 17:11; Judges 1:27; 5:19), fortified by Solomon (1Ki.9.15), and the site of King Josiah's death (2Ki.23.29-30; 2Ch.35.22).
- verses
- 13
- first named
- Joshua 12:21
- last named
- Revelation 16:16
- feature
- mountain
- coordinates
- 32.59°N · 35.18°E
Tel Megiddo (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Megiddo in the text
Megiddo was a city of great strategic importance located in the Jezreel Valley, guarding the main trade route between Egypt and Mesopotamia. It was one of the cities conquered by Joshua during the Israelite conquest of Canaan (Joshua 12:21). Megiddo was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh but was not fully taken from the Canaanites (Joshua 17:11; Judges 1:27). The city is mentioned in the song of Deborah as the site of a great battle against the Canaanites (Judges 5:19). King Solomon fortified Megiddo as one of his key cities (1Ki.9.15). The city continued to play a significant role in later history, with King Josiah of Judah being killed by Pharaoh Necho of Egypt at Megiddo (2Ki.23.29-30; 2Ch.35.22). The name Armageddon, derived from the Hebrew "Har Megiddo" (hill of Megiddo), appears in the book of Revelation as the site of the final battle between the forces of good and evil (Revelation 16:16).
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 Megiddo 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.
13 verses across 8 of 66 books; 58 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (2), Judges (2), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Zechariah (1) and Revelation (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 13, across 8 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
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