Aijalon

Identified as

Ayalon Valley

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.867° N, 34.959° E

Aijalon· Ajalon

• אַיָּלוֹן·Aijalon

1. Joshua 10:12
   On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
2. Joshua 19:42
   Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
3. Joshua 21:24
   Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
4. Judges 1:35
   And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.
5. Judges 12:12
   Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and he was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
6. 1 Samuel 14:31
   That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
7. 1 Chronicles 6:69
   Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon, together with their pasturelands.
8. 1 Chronicles 8:13
   …and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families living in Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath).
9. 2 Chronicles 11:10
   Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.
10. 2 Chronicles 28:18
    The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.