AJALON (aj'a-ion), (Heb. ah-yaw-lone'), place of deer, or oaks.
1. Town and valley in the tribe of Dan (Josh. xix :42), which was given to the Levites (Josh. xxi :24; 1 Chron. vi :69). It was not far from Bethshemesh (2 Chron. xxviii :i8), and was one of the places which Rehoboam fortified (2 Chron. xi :io), and among the strongholds which the Philistines took from Ahaz (2 Chron. xxviii :18). But the town, or rather the valley to which the town gave name, derives its chief renown from the circumstance that when Joshua, in pursuit of the five kings, arrived at some point near Upper Beth-horon, looking back upon Gibeon and down upon the noble vallJy be fore him, he uttered the celebrated command: 'Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou moon, in the volley of Ajalon' ( Josh. x :12). From the indications of Jerome, who places Ajalon two Roman miles from Nicopolis, on the way to Je rusalem, joined to the preservation of the ancient name in the form of Yalo, Dr. Robinson (Bibl.
Researches, iii :63) appears to have identified the valley and the site of the town. From a house top in I3eit Ur (Beth-boron) he looked down upon a broad and beautiful valley, which lay at his feet, towards Ramleh. This valley runs out west by north through a tract of hills, and then bends off southwest through the great western plain. It is called Med Ihu 'Omeir. Upon the side of the long hill which skirts the valley on the south, a small village was perceived, called Yalo, which cannot well be any other than the ancient Ajalon ; and there can be little question that the broad wady to the north of it is the valley of the same name.
2. A city of the tribe of Zebulun (Judg. xii:12). It has been identified as the modern Jalun.
AKAN (a'kan), (Heb. Lr, aw-kawn', twisted), son of Ezer, son of Scir, the Horite of Idumxa (Gen. xxxvi:27). He is elsewhere called Jakan (1 Chron. i:42).