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