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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
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Samson pulled down the temple of Dagon here, and Philip met the Ethiopian official on the desert road toward it. It was one of the five Philistine cities, assigned to Judah and never fully held, and Egyptian records already name it in the second millennium BC.
Samson pulled down the temple of Dagon here, and Philip met the Ethiopian official on the desert road toward it. It was one of the five Philistine cities, assigned to Judah and never fully held, and Egyptian records already name it in the second millennium BC.
One of the five great Philistine cities and a major stop on the coastal trade route between Egypt and the Levant, among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was assigned to Judah but never fully held (Josh. 15:47; Judg. 1:18), and it is remembered as the city where a captured Samson pulled down the temple of Dagon (Judg. 16:21-30); Philip the evangelist later met the Ethiopian official on the desert road leading toward it (Acts 8:26). Egyptian records from the second millennium BC, including the Amarna letters, already name the city as an administrative center under Egyptian control, confirming its antiquity.
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