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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Armageddon
Only Revelation 16:16 uses it, for the place the kings of the earth gather for the last battle against God. The name comes from Har-Megiddo, mount of Megiddo, the plain where Deborah and Barak beat Sisera and Josiah died fighting Pharaoh Necho.
Only Revelation 16:16 uses it, for the place the kings of the earth gather for the last battle against God. The name comes from Har-Megiddo, mount of Megiddo, the plain where Deborah and Barak beat Sisera and Josiah died fighting Pharaoh Necho.
Armageddon appears only in Revelation 16:16, where it names the place where the kings of the earth are gathered for the final battle against God. The name derives from the Hebrew Har-Megiddo, "mount of Megiddo," recalling the strategic plain of Megiddo where Israel fought several of its most decisive battles, including Deborah and Barak's victory over Sisera and Josiah's death in battle against Pharaoh Necho. Excavations at Tel Megiddo have uncovered more than twenty superimposed layers of settlement spanning millennia, confirming the site's long history as a military crossroads controlling the pass between the coastal plain and the Jezreel Valley.
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- Revelation 16:16
