Armageddon (Heb. har, hill, and Megiddo), the name probably given to the whole table land of Esdraelon in Galilee and Samaria, from the town of Megiddo, which stood near the centre of it, upon the site, according to Dr. Robinson, of the modern Lejjun (the Roman Legio). Armageddon was the great battle- I lield of Palestine. On this elevated plain were ! fought the battles of the Kishon, Jezreel, Gilboa, and Megiddo. The fame of this held of many; battles explains the passage (Rev. xvi. 14-16) in which the seer of the Apocalyptic vision describes God as.summoning his foes to "a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon," to the battle of the " great day of God Almighty."