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(AIJALON or AJALON, "a place of gazelles" (; ).
1. Originally of Dan; which tribe, however, could not dispossess the Amorites (). Assigned to the Levite Kohathites, among the 48 Levitical cities (). Fortified by Rehoboam of Judah, in his war with Israel, the northern kingdom, though sometimes, as being a border city, mentioned as in Ephraim (; ). Taken by the Philistines from the weak Ahaz (; ). Now Yalo, N. of the Jaffa road, 14 miles from Jerusalem, on the hill side, bounding on the S. the valley Merj-ibn-Omeir. Alluded to in the memorable apostrophe of Joshua, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon" ().
2. The burial place of the judge () Elon in Zebulun.