Ashdod

A city of the Philistines

• 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 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;

• 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.

Anakim inhabit

• Joshua 11:22

  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.

Assigned to Judah

• Joshua 15:47

  Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:

Dagon's temple in, where the ark of the covenant was put temporarily

1 Samuel 5

Conquest of, by Uzziah

• 2 Chronicles 26:6

  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.

Conquest by Tartan

• Isaiah 20:1

  In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

People of, conspire against the Jews

• 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 4:8

  And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

Jews intermarry with

• Nehemiah 13:23

  In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

• Nehemiah 13:24

  And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

Prophecies concerning

• 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.

• 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.

• Zechariah 9:6

  And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Amos 9

Called AZOTUS

• Acts 8:40

  But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea.