Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Armageddon - The original of this word has been variously formed, and variously translated. It is ־ har -megiddon , "the mount of the assembly;" or chormah gedehon , "the destruction of their army;" or it is ־ har -megiddo , "Mount Megiddo," the valley of which was remarkable for two great slaughters: one of the Israelites, II Kings 23:29, the other of the Canaanites, Judges 4:16; Judges 5:19. But Mount Megiddo, that is Carmel, is the place, according to some, where these armies should be collected.
But what is the battle of Armageddon? How ridiculous have been the conjectures of men relative to this point! Within the last twenty years this battle has been fought at various places, according to our purblind seers and self-inspired prophets! At one time it was Austerlitz, at another Moscow, at another Leipsic, and now Waterloo! And thus they have gone on, and will go on, confounding and being confounded.
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Revelation 16:13
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