Armageddon

(-ged´don), the great battlefield of the Old Testament, where the chief conflicts took place between the Israeli tes and their enemies—the table-land of Esdraelon in Galilee and Samaria, in the centre of which stood the town of Megiddo, on the site of the modern Lejjun: used figuratively in the Apocalypse to signify the place of 'the battle of the great day of God'. It may, however, be har mig do , his fruitful mountain, 'the mountain land of Israel'. The phrase 'an Armageddon' expre es any great slaughter or final conflict, and has been frequently applied to the Great War of 1914-8. During this war severe fighting took place in Sept., 1918, on the field of Armageddon, the entrance to the pa es of Megiddo. The battle ended in an overwhelming victory for General Allen by's armies. See Megiddo .