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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Ashkelon
One of the five main Philistine cities, a port on the coast midway between Gaza and Joppa. Samson killed thirty of its men there to pay off a wager. It is named on the Merneptah Stele, an Egyptian inscription from around 1208 BC.
One of the five main Philistine cities, a port on the coast midway between Gaza and Joppa. Samson killed thirty of its men there to pay off a wager. It is named on the Merneptah Stele, an Egyptian inscription from around 1208 BC.
Ashkelon was one of the five principal Philistine cities, a coastal port midway between Gaza and Joppa that Judah briefly captured after the conquest before the Philistines retook it. Samson killed thirty of its men there to pay off a wager, and the prophets repeatedly singled it out for judgment. Ashkelon appears by name in the Merneptah Stele, an Egyptian inscription from around 1208 BC boasting of its conquest, one of the earliest extrabiblical references to a place named in the Bible; the same inscription contains the earliest known mention of Israel.
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- ruins at Tel Ashkelon
- Judges 1:18
- Judges 14:19
- 1 Samuel 6:17
- 2 Samuel 1:20
- Jeremiah 25:20
- Jeremiah 47:5
- Jeremiah 47:7
- Amos 1:8
- Zephaniah 2:4
- Zephaniah 2:7
- Zechariah 9:5
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