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MEGIDDO, or Magedo, a City of the Josh. xvii. 11. Judg. i. 27. 2 Kings xxiii. 29, 30.Tribe of Manasseh, famous for the Defeat of King Josiah, who was overcome and wounded to Death by Pharaoh-nechoh King of Egypt. We have elsewhere observed, that Herodotus1 speaking of this Victory, says that Nechoh obtained it at Magdolos. Mention is made of the Waters of Megiddo in the Book of Judges, Ch. v. ℣ 19.
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Herodot. l. ii. c. 159. ↩
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