Ijon

Ijon was a fortified town at the northernmost edge of Naphtali in upper Galilee, just south of the Lebanon mountains — and twice among the first cities to fall when invasions swept through the Galilee. First, when Ben-Hadad I of Damascus invaded at King Asa's request, "they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth" (1 Kings 15:20). A century later, when Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria swept through in 732 BCE, "he captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor... all the land of Naphtali; and carried the people captive to Assyria" (2 Kings 15:29). Identified with Tell ed-Dibbin in southern Lebanon.