Eglon:
(calf‐like).
(1.) A king of the Moabites (Judges 3:12 ff.) who, aided by the Ammonites and the Amelekites, crossed the Joran and took "the city of palm trees." (B.C. 1359) Here, according to Josephus, he built himself a palace, and continued for eighteen years to oppress the children of Israel, who paid him tribute. He was slain by Ehud. SEE [EHUD].
(2.) A town of Judah in the low country (Joshua 15:39). The name survives in the modern Ajlan, a shapeless mass of ruins, about 10 miles from Eleutheropolis and 14 from Gaza, on the south of the great maritime plain.
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