Bible Location
Meaning: look; eye; fountain · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Ijon was a northern city in Naphtali repeatedly struck in the wars involving Syria and Assyria. It is important because it illustrates how exposed the far north of Israel was to larger regional powers. First appears in 1 Kgs 15:20.1
Place meaning
look; eye; fountain
Coordinates
33.33, 35.61
First appears
1 Kgs 15:20
AI summary: Ijon matters because it stands near the front line of the northern kingdom's vulnerability. Kings records its capture first by Syrian intervention and later by Assyrian expansion, which shows the cumulative pressure exerted on Israel's borderlands. The cross references present Ijon as a northern city repeatedly overtaken in the struggle between local kingdoms and empires.1
Place meaning
look; eye; fountain
Latitude
33.33
Longitude
35.61
Bible references
3
A ruin, a city of Naphtali, captured by Ben-hadad of Syria at the instance of Asa (1 Kings 15:20), and afterwards by Tiglath-pileser of Assyria (2 Kings 15:29) in the reign of Pekah; now el-Khiam. 3
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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.