Thematic Bible: Ashkelon


Thematic Bible



and all the foreign (mixed) population, all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (and [their cities of] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod); Verse ConceptsMixed MultitudeSurvivors Of The Nations


“And I will cut off and destroy the inhabitants from Ashdod,
And the ruler who holds the scepter, from Ashkelon;
And I will unleash My power and turn My hand [in judgment] against Ekron,
And the rest of the Philistines [in Gath and the towns dependent on these four Philistine cities] shall die,”
Says the Lord God.
Verse ConceptsSurvivors DestroyedGod's HandGod KillingGod's Hands In OppositionGod Will Kill The PeoplesGod Killing Individuals


For [this is the fate of the Philistines:] Gaza will be abandoned
And Ashkelon a desolation;
[The people of] Ashdod will be driven out at noon [in broad daylight]
And Ekron will be uprooted and destroyed.
Verse ConceptsNoonArchaeologyEmpty CitiesPlucking Outcrusades


“Baldness [as a sign of mourning] will come on Gaza;
Ashkelon will be cut off and ruined.
O remnant of their valley,
How long will you gash yourselves [as a sign of mourning]?
Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessHairsHeadsKnivesMourningSilenceGashing Bodies


“How can His sword be quiet
When the Lord has given it an order?
Against Ashkelon and against the [whole Philistine] seashore
There He has assigned it.”
Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot StillGod's Orders


The seacoast will belong
To the remnant of the house of Judah;
They will pasture [their flocks] on it.
In the [deserted] houses of Ashkelon [in Philistia] they [of Judah] will lie down and rest in the evening,
For the Lord their God will care for them;
And restore their fortune [permitting them to occupy the land].
Verse ConceptsLiving In HousesCoastlandsLying Down To RestSurvivors FavouredGod's Interventionfatemindfulness


Ashkelon will see it and fear;
Gaza will writhe in pain,
And Ekron, for her hope and expectation, has been ruined.
The king will perish from Gaza,
And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
Verse ConceptsAgony, God's JudgmentdrynessHope, Of The WickedHope, Nature OfPessimismEmpty CitiesPhysical PainFear Will ComeWithout HopePleasurableness

Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of them and took their gear, and gave changes of clothes to those who had explained the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house. Verse ConceptsThirtyPeople Giving ClothesAngry PeopleNumbers Of Foreigners KilledGifts Of Supernatural Strengthcrusades

These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath and one for Ekron [the five chief cities of the Philistines]; Verse ConceptsRestitution

from the Shihor [waterway] which is east of Egypt [at the southern end of Canaan], northward to the border of Ekron (all of it regarded as Canaanite); the five rulers of the Philistines: the Gazite, Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite Verse ConceptsRulersFive People

Also [the warriors of] Judah captured Gaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory.