Bible Cities

Armageddon Scripture - Revelation 16:16

And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon....

Read More

Ashdod Scripture - Joshua 15:47

Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:...

Read More

Ashdod Scripture - Zephaniah 2:4

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up....

Read More

Ashdod Scripture - Isaiah 20:1

In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;...

Read More

Ashkelon Scripture - Jeremiah 47:7

How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it....

Read More

Arimathea Scripture - Matthew 27:57

When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:...

Read More

Ashdod in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ash'-dod ('ashdodh; Azotos; modern Esdud): One of the five chief cities of the Philistines. The name means stronghold or fortress, and its strength may be inferred by the fact that Psammetik I, of Egypt, besieged it for many years (Herodotus says 29). Some of the Anakim were found there in the days of Joshua (Josh 11:22), and the inhabitants w...

Read More

Ashdod Scripture - Jeremiah 25:20

- And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,...

Read More

Ashdod Scripture - Nehemiah 13:23

In those days also saw I Jews [that] had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:...

Read More

Ashkelon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ask'-ke-lon, esh'-ka-lon, as'-ke-lon (the King James Version Eshkalon, (Eshkalonites; Josh 13:3); Askelon, (Jdg 1:18; 1 Sam 6:17; 2 Sam 1:20); 'ashqelon; modern Askelan): A maritime town between Jaffa and Gaza, one of the five chief cities of the Philistines. The Ashkelonites are mentioned by Joshua (Josh 13:3), and the city was taken by the t...

Read More