-Also called ASKELON -One of the five chief cities of the Philistines Joshua 13:3 -Captured by the people of Judah Judges 1:18 -Samson kills thirty men of Judges 14:19 -Emerods (tumors, R. V.) of I Samuel 6:17 -Prophecies concerning Jeremiah 25:20; 47:5, 7; Amos 1:8; Zephaniah 2:4, 7; Zechariah 9:5
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