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• AzotusBible

  Azotus is the Greek name of Ashdod, an ancient Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast. In the New Testament it is the place where Philip the evangelist was found after baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:40).

• Isaiah 20Bible

  Isaiah 20 records a symbolic act performed at God's command in the year Assyria captured Ashdod: for three years Isaiah went about naked and barefoot as a sign that Egypt and Cush would be led away captive by Assyria.

• DagonBible

  Dagon is a god worshiped by the Philistines in the Old Testament. He appears in the story of Samson and in the account of the Ark of the Covenant being placed in the temple of Dagon at Ashdod.

• Philistine PentapolisBible

  The Philistine Pentapolis is the collective name for the five cities that the Philistines established on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Canaan: Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. During the period of the judges and the early monarchy, these cities were the centers of the Philistine power that opposed Israel.

• 1 Samuel 5Bible

  1 Samuel 5 recounts how the ark of God (the Ark of the Covenant), captured by the Philistines, was carried to Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron. During this time the image of Dagon fell before the ark, and each city was struck with a plague of tumors.

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Verses in the King James Version 19, showing 6

• Joshua 11:22

  There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

• Joshua 15:46

  From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:

• Joshua 15:47

  Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:

• 1 Samuel 5:1

  And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben–ezer unto Ashdod.

• 1 Samuel 5:3

  And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

• 1 Samuel 5:5

  Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

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