Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Askelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till you come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did grind in the prison house.