The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ajalon
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AJALON, ăj′ạ-lŏn, said to be the modern Yâlo, a village 14 miles west-northwest of Jerusalem, was the town rendered memorable by Joshua’s victory over the five Canaanitish kings, and still more so by the extraordinary circumstance of the miraculously lengthened day.