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). It has been identified with Tell
    Nejileh, 6 miles south of Tell Hesy or Ajlan, north-west of
    Lachish. (See LACHISH.)



 Eglon, same as Eglah