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Meaning: hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Armageddon is the symbolic gathering place for the final battle in Revelation, drawing on the Megiddo tradition. It is important because it compresses the Bible's memory of conflict-ridden northern plains into apocalyptic imagery. First appears in Rev 16:16.1
AI summary: Armageddon matters because Revelation uses a charged place-name to evoke decisive confrontation under God's sovereign judgment. The term is symbolic, but its force depends on the long biblical association of Megiddo's region with battle and turning points.1
Occurs only in Rev. 16:16 (R.V., “Har-Magedon”), as symbolically designating the place where the “battle of that great day of God Almighty” (ver. 14) shall be fought. The word properly means the “mount of Megiddo.” It is the scene of the final conflict between Christ and Antichrist. The idea of such a scene was suggested by the Old Testament great battle-field, the plain of Esdraelon (q.v.). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.