Joshua 12:21

Taanach Almost always in company with Megiddo, one of the chief towns of the rich district which forms the western portion of the great plain of Esdraelon (1 Kings 4:12). It was a city of the Levites (Joshua 21:25), and was famous for the victory of Barak (Judges 5:19). Under the form Ta'annuk it retains its old name with hardly the change of a letter.

Megiddo which commanded one of those passes from the north into the hill country, which were of such critical importance in the history of Judæa. It does not seem to have been really occupied by the Israelites till the time of Solomon, and is famous as the place (i) where Ahaziah died in his flight from Jehu (2 Kings 9:27), and (ii) where Josiah was fatally wounded in the battle against Necho king of Egypt (2 Chronicles 35:22-24). The modern name is el-Lejjûn, the "Legio" of Eusebius and Jerome.