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Reference: Ashkelon

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A city of the Philistine Pentapolis. It is mentioned several times in the Tell el-Amarna correspondence. According to Jos 13:3, it was left unconquered; but the interpolated passage, Jg 1:18, enumerates it among the places captured by Israel. It is doubtful whether Samson took the spoil with which he paid his wages (Jg 14:19) from this city, which is two days' journey from Timnath, or from a similarly styled village, much nearer at hand, now possibly represented in name by Khurbet 'Askalan, near Tell Zakariya. It is referred to in the story of the return of the ark (1Sa 6:17), and in David's lament (2Sa 1:20), and with the other Philistine cities is made an object of denunciation by various prophets. Here Jonathan Maccab

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Josh 13:3

from the Shihor which is east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite

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Judg 1:18

And Judah took Gaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory.

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Judg 14:19

Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of them and took their spoil and gave the changes of clothes to those who told the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father's house.

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1 Sam 6:17

These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a guilt offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

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2 Sam 1:20

"Tell it not in Gath, Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, Or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, The daughters of the uncircumcised will exult.

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