Ekron

Ekron in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("the firm rooted".) Most northerly of the five Philistine lordship cities, farthest from the sea, to the right of the great road from Egypt northwards to Syria, in the shephelah (low country). A landmark of Judah on the northern boundary which ran thence to the sea at Jabneel (Joshua 15:45-46; Judges 1:18). Afterward in Dan (Joshua 19:43); bu...

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Ekron Scripture - Joshua 15:11

And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea....

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Ekron Scripture - 1 Samuel 6:16

And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen [it], they returned to Ekron the same day....

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Ekron in Hitchcock's Bible Names

barrenness; torn away...

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Ekron Scripture - Joshua 13:3

From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:...

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Ekron Scripture - Joshua 15:45

Ekron, with her towns and her villages:...

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Ekron Scripture - Judges 1:18

Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof....

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Ekron Scripture - Amos 1:8

And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD....

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Ekron Scripture - Joshua 15:46

From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod, with their villages:...

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Ekron Scripture - 2 Kings 1:16

And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron, [is it] not because [there is] no God in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die....

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