Ashdod

Town or city mentioned in 21 verses of the Bible, most often in 1 Samuel.

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Where it appears

1 Samuel (6), Joshua (4), Nehemiah (3), Amos (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (1), Zephaniah (1), Zechariah (1), Acts (1)

Key verses

• Joshua 11:22 first mention — There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
• 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:
• 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.
• 1 Samuel 5:6 — But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
• 1 Samuel 6:17 — And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
• Nehemiah 4:7 — But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
• Nehemiah 13:23 — In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
• 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,
• 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.
• Amos 3:9 — Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
• 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.
• Acts 8:40 — But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea.

Nearby places

• Jabneel 15 km
• Philistines 15 km
• Askelon 15 km
• Baalath 15 km
• Eltekeh 18 km
• Ekron 18 km
• Gath 19 km
• Shephelah 22 km

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