Joshua 15:46

From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod, with their villages:

From Ekron {H6138} even unto the sea {H3220}, all that lay near {H3027} Ashdod {H795}, with their villages {H2691}:

from 'Ekron to the sea; all those near Ashdod, with their villages;

from Ekron to the sea, all the cities near Ashdod, along with their villages;

from Ekron even unto the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 2 Chronicles 26:6 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Amos 1:8 (2 votes)

    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.

  • 1 Samuel 5:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

  • Nehemiah 13:23 (2 votes)

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

  • Nehemiah 13:24 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Isaiah 20:1 (2 votes)

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

  • 1 Samuel 5:6 (2 votes)

    ¶ 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.