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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....

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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:...

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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...

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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,...

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Ashdod Scripture - Nehemiah 13:23

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

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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...

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Ashkelon Scripture - Judges 14:19

And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house....

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Ashdod in Naves Topical Bible

A city of the Philistines Jos 13:3; 1Sa 6:17; Am 3:9 -Anakim inhabit Jos 11:22 -Assigned to Judah Jos 15:47 -Dagon's temple in, where the ark of the covenant was put temporarily 1Sa 5 -Conquest of, by Uzziah 2Ch 26:6 -Conquest by Tartan Isa 20:1 -People of, conspire against the Jews Ne 4:7,8 -Jews intermarry with Ne 13:23,24 -Proph...

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Armageddon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

har-ma-ged'-on (Harmagedon from Hebrew har meghiddo, "Mount of Megiddo"; the King James Version Armageddon): This name is found only in Rev 16:16. It is described as the rallying- place of the kings of the whole world who, led by the unclean spirits issuing from the mouth of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet, assemble here for "the wa...

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Ashdod Scripture - 1 Samuel 5:3

And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again....

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