Eglon
Where Eglon sits on the map, and the 8 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Tell Eton
- Coordinates
- 31.4918, 34.9281
- Mentions
- 8 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
8 verses, in biblical order.
Joshua
- Joshua 10:3
Therefore, Adonizedek, the king of Jerusalem, sent to Hoham, the king of Hebron, and to Piram, the king of Jarmuth, and also to Japhia, the king of Lachish, and to Debir, the king of Eglon, saying:
- Joshua 10:5
And so, having assembled, the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, together with their armies, went up and encamped around Gibeon, laying siege to it.
- Joshua 10:23
And the ministers did just as they had been ordered. And they led out to him the five kings from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.
- Joshua 10:34
And he went on from Lachish to Eglon, and he surrounded it.
- Joshua 10:36
He also ascended, with all of Israel, from Eglon into Hebron, and he fought against it.
- Joshua 10:37
He seized it and struck it with the edge of the sword, likewise with its king, and all the towns of that region, and all the souls that were staying in it. He did not leave any remains in it. Just as he had done to Eglon, so also did he do to Hebron, consuming with the sword all that he found within it.
- Joshua 12:12
the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
- Joshua 15:39
Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon,