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17 These are the gold tumors that the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;(A)

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20 Tell it not in Gath;
    proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice;
    the daughters of the uncircumcised will exult.(A)

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Ashkelon shall see it and be afraid;
    Gaza, too, and shall writhe in anguish;
    Ekron also, because its hopes are withered.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
    Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;(A)
a mongrel people shall settle in Ashdod,
    and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.(B)

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Cross over to Calneh and see;
    from there go to Hamath the great;
    then go down to Gath of the Philistines.
Are you better[a] than these kingdoms?
    Or is your[b] territory greater than their[c] territory,(A)

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  1. 6.2 Or Are they better
  2. 6.2 Heb their
  3. 6.2 Heb your

So I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza,
    and it shall devour its strongholds.
I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod
    and the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
    and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,
            says the Lord God.(A)

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20 all the mixed people;[a] all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;(A)

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  1. 25.20 Meaning of Heb uncertain

He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.(A)

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Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured, so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.”(A)

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22 These four were descended from the giants[a] in Gath; they fell by the hands of David and his servants.

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  1. 21.22 Gk: Heb from the Raphah

And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall send to him?” They answered, “Five gold tumors and five gold mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was upon all of you and upon your lords.(A)

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10 So they sent the ark of the God of Israel[a] to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “Why[b] have they brought around to us[c] the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our[d] people?”

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  1. 5.10 Q ms Gk mss: MT lacks of Israel
  2. 5.10 Q ms Gk: MT lacks Why
  3. 5.10 Heb me
  4. 5.10 Heb me and my

So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” The inhabitants of Gath replied, “Let the ark of God be moved on to us.”[a] So they moved the ark of the God of Israel to Gath.[b](A)

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  1. 5.8 Gk Compare Q ms: MT They replied, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath.”
  2. 5.8 Gk: Heb lacks to Gath

The Philistines and the Ark

When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod;(A)

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21 So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.

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Samson and Delilah

16 Once Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to her.

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18 Judah took Gaza with its territory, Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.

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