Why Har-Magedon? There was, we have every reason to believe, no such place. The name is symbolical. It is a compound word derived from the Hebrew, and signifying the mountain of Megiddo. We are thus again taken back to Old Testament history, in which the great plain of Megiddo, the most extensive in Palestine, plays on more than one occasion a notable part. In particular, that plain was famous for two great slaughters, that of the Canaanitish host by Barak, celebrated in the song of Deborah,[438] and that in which King Josiah fell.[439] The former is probably alluded to, for the enemies of Israel were there completely routed. For a similar though still more terrible destruction the hosts of evil are assembled at Har-Magedon. The Seer thinks it enough to assemble them, and to name the place. He does not need to go further or to describe the victory.Milligan, William. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation (Kindle Locations 3649-3651). Kindle Edition.
Milligan, William. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation (Kindle Locations 3644-3649). Kindle Edition.
Milligan, William. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Revelation (Kindle Location 3644). Kindle Edition.
Note: For you spelling purists out there, the word may be spelled "Har-Magedon," Harmagedon or Harmageddon. Also see the more recent paper written here: http://home.tamk.fi/~mark/fi/docs/Armageddon.pdf
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"An allusion to the TOWN of Megiddo in northern Palestine." - priceless.
Zech 12:11 lxx needs to be compared.
The book All the Places in the Bible says that Megiddo refers to the mound and to the ancient city in North Palestine.
A number of books contain this information, if you check Google books, that becomes clear.
The mound was part of the city and most of the books are already out of date.
Duncan,
I've consulted books that are not that old--including Ranko's--and they overwhelmingly point out that no mountain of Megiddo ever existed or does exist. As I hoped to establish by now, a mound is not a mountain. :)
Megiddo is not and has never been a mountain.
Here's a book from 2012: https://books.google.com/books?id=D8veBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=mountain+of+megiddo+aune&source=bl&ots=q4i2TAN68N&sig=WY8-FaX6LRLAExwt754VivW9eEo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGxey5ot3aAhXLc98KHSvmAJwQ6AEIfjAM#v=onepage&q=mountain%20of%20megiddo%20aune&f=false
This paper surveys many different views of Rev 16:16: https://www.academia.edu/895735/The_%D0%9E%D0%A2_Background_to_Armageddon_Rev._16_16_Revisited
Here's some other links on the subject of Armageddon/Megiddo:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4899-6076-4_8
https://books.google.com/books?id=CM7Kpr6R3JoC&pg=PA257&lpg=PA257&dq=revelation+16:16+megiddo+garland&source=bl&ots=eKmmpy2xoc&sig=1XhuWDf90Fi0XvhLDg0jaIebgbA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_2fDpxN3aAhVMU98KHXqvC3QQ6AEIZjAM#v=onepage&q=revelation%2016%3A16%20megiddo%20garland&f=false
See:-
https://touristinisrael.wordpress.com/2016/08/20/mount-zion/
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