Armageddon
har-ma-ged'-on (Harmagedon from Hebrew har meghiddo, "Mount
of Megiddo"; the King James Version Armageddon): This name
is found only in Rev 16:16. It is described as the rallying-
place of the kings of the whole world who, led by the
unclean spirits issuing from the mouth of the dragon, the
beast and the false prophet, assemble here for "the wa...
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(the hill or city of Megiddo). Re 16:16 The scene of the
struggle of good and evil is suggested by that battle-field,
the plain of Esdraelon, which was famous for two great
victories, of Barak over the Canaanites and of Gideon over the
Midianites; and for two great disasters, the deaths of Saul
and Josiah. Hence it signifies in Revelation a pl...
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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 Testam...
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("Mount of Megiddo": from a root gadad, "to cut off," i.e.
"slaughter" (Revelation 16:16)). The plain of Esdraelon, the
great Old Testament battle field between Israel and the
various enemies of Jehovah's people: the scene of Barak's
victory over Canaan, and Gideon's over Midian (Judges 4; 5;
7), the scene also of Saul's death and Israel's def...
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hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo...
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And he gathered them together into a place called in the
Hebrew tongue Armageddon....
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