Reference: Aijalon
Fausets
(AIJALON or AJALON, "a place of gazelles" (Jos 19:42; 21:24).
1. Originally of Dan; which tribe, however, could not dispossess the Amorites (Jg 1:35). Assigned to the Levite Kohathites, among the 48 Levitical cities (1Ch 6:69). Fortified by Rehoboam of Judah, in his war with Israel, the northern kingdom, though sometimes, as being a border city, mentioned as in Ephraim (2Ch 11:10; 28:18). Taken by the Philistines from the weak Ahaz (1Ch 6:66,69). 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" (Jos 10:12).
2. The burial place of the judge (Jg 12:12) Elon in Zebulun.
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Hastings
1. A city allotted to, but not occupied by, Dan (Jos 19:42; Jg 1:35). We find it in the hands of Rehoboam (2Ch 11:10); later the Philistines took it (2Ch 28:18). It may be the modern Y
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Morish
Ai'jalon
See AJALON.
Watsons
AIJALON, a city of the Canaanites; the valley adjoining to which is memorable in sacred history from the miracle of Joshua, in arresting the course of the sun and moon, that the Israelites might have sufficient light to pursue their enemies, Jos 10:12-13. Aijalon was afterward a Levitical city, and belonged to the tribe of Dan; who did not, however, drive out the Amorite inhabitants, Jg 1:35.