46From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod,(when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: …
And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-63)We have here a list of the several cities that fell within the lot of the tribe of Judah, which are mentioned by name, that they might know their own, and both keep it and keep to it, and might neither through cowardice nor sloth lose the possession of what was their own. I. The cities are here named, and numbered in several classes, which they then could account for the reason of better than we c…
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