Megiddo
Ancient site, identified with Tel Megiddo.
Placesettlement12 verses
Where was it?
One proposed modern location, with the scholarly support recorded for it.
- Tel Megiddo1,000
Name variants
- Megiddo (115)
- Valley of Megiddo (2)
- Megiddon (1)
- Plain of Megiddo (1)
- Waters of Megiddo (1)
References
Topical references
- A city in the territory of Issachar situated on the southern edge of the plain of Esdraelon — Joshua 17:11; 1 Chronicles 7:29
- Conquest of, by Joshua — Joshua 12:21
- Walled by Solomon — 1 Kings 9:15
- Included in one or Solomon's commissary districts — 1 Kings 4:12
- Ahaziah dies at — 2 Kings 9:27
- Valley of, Deborah defeats Sisera in — Judges 5:19
- Josiah killed at, by Pharaoh-nechoh — 2 Kings 23:29; 2 Kings 23:30; 2 Chronicles 35:22
- Prophecy concerning — Zechariah 12:11
Outline from Nave's Topical Bible (1897); the sub-headings are Nave's own.