How to Pronounce Eglon
EG-lahn
Eglon is pronounced EG-lahn (ˈɛglɑn): two syllables, stress on the first.
What does Eglon mean?
Eglon means “same as Eglah”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Who was Eglon?
The bullock; place of heifers. (1.) Chieftain or king of one of the Moabite tribes (Judg. 3:12-14). Having entered into an alliance with Ammon and Amalek, he overran the trans-Jordanic region, and then crossing the Jordan, seized on Jericho, the “city of palm trees,” which had been by this time rebuilt, but not as a fortress. He made this city his capital, and kept Israel in subjection for eighteen years. The people at length “cried unto the Lord” in their distress, and he “raised them up a deliverer” in Ehud (q.v.), the son of Gera, a Benjamite. (2.) A city in Judah, near Lachish (Josh. 15:39). It was destroyed by Joshua (10:5, 6).
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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