Ono was a town in the plain, built by a family of Benjamin, and it is named three times. First Chronicles says the sons of Elpaal “built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof.” Nehemiah mentions it twice. While he was rebuilding Jerusalem’s wall, his opponents Sanballat and Geshem invited him to “meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono,” and the text says they planned him harm. Nehemiah did not go. Later the town appears among the places where returning exiles lived. If you want the story, begin in Nehemiah 6 and read his reply to the invitation.
3 verses
The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
A town of Benjamin, in the “plain of Ono” (1 Chr. 8:12; Ezra 2:33); now Kefr ‘Ana, 5 miles north of Lydda, and about 30 miles north-west of Jerusalem. Not succeeding in their attempts to deter Nehemiah from rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Sanballat and Tobiah resorted to strategem, and pretending to wish a conference with him, they invited him to meet them at Ono. Four times they made the request, and every time Nehemiah refused to come. Their object was to take him prisoner.
William Smith, 1884
(strong), one of the towns of Benjamin, is first found in (1 Chronicles 8:12) A plain was attached to the town called "the plain of Ono" (Nehemiah 6:2) perhaps identical with the valley of craftsmen" (Nehemiah 11:35)