¹⁰ Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. So it was, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people!”

² Now ^(A)Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of ^(B)Baal-Zebub,^[a] the god of ^(C)Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.”

¹⁸ Also Judah took ^(A)Gaza with its territory, Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

⁴⁵ Ekron, with its towns and villages;