1Sa 5:1, 6, 2Ch 26:6, Neh 13:23-24, Isa 20:1, Amo 1:8 | TSK | STEP | The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod, set it in the house of Dagon. Dagon is smitten down and cut in pieces, and they of Ashdod smitten with emerods. So God deals with them of Gath, when it was brought thither; and so with them of Ekron, when it was brought thither. took. Eben-ezer. Ashdod.Ashdod, called Azotus by the Greeks, was one of the five satrapies of the Philistines, and a place of great strength and consequence. It was situated near the Mediterranean, between Askelon and Jamnia, thirty-four miles north of Gaza, according to Diodorus Siculus, and the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries. It is now called Shdood; and Dr. Richardson says they neither saw nor heard of any ruins there. "The ground," he observes, "around Ashdod is beautifully undulating, but not half stocked with cattle. The site of the town is on the summit of a grassy hill; and, if we are to believe historians, was anciently as strong as it was beautiful." Azotus.

1 Samuel 5:1

1 The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod, set it in the house of Dagon.

3 Dagon is smitten down and cut in pieces, and they of Ashdod smitten with emerods.

8 So God deals with them of Gath, when it was brought thither;

10 and so with them of Ekron, when it was brought thither.

took.

4:11,17,18,22; Ps 78:61

Eben-ezer.

4:1; 7:12

Ashdod.Ashdod, called Azotus by the Greeks, was one of the five satrapies of the Philistines, and a place of great strength and consequence. It was situated near the Mediterranean, between Askelon and Jamnia, thirty-four miles north of Gaza, according to Diodorus Siculus, and the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries. It is now called Shdood; and Dr. Richardson says they neither saw nor heard of any ruins there. "The ground," he observes, "around Ashdod is beautifully undulating, but not half stocked with cattle. The site of the town is on the summit of a grassy hill; and, if we are to believe historians, was anciently as strong as it was beautiful."

Jos 11:22; Ac 8:40

Azotus.

1 Samuel 5:6

the hand.

7,11; Ex 9:3; Ps 32:4; Ac 13:11

emerods.

9,11; 6:5; De 28:27; Job 31:3; Ps 78:66

thereof.The LXX. and Vulgate add: [Kai meson tés choras autés anephyésan myes kai egeneto synchysis thanatou megalé en té polei; {Et ebullierunt villæ et agri in medio regionis illius, et nati sunt mures; et facta est confusio mortis magnæ in civitate; "And [the cities and fields in Vulg.] the midst of that region produced mice; [Vulg. burst up, and mice were produced;] and there was the confusion of a great death in the city."

6:4,5

2 Chronicles 26:6

warred against.

21:16; Isa 14:29

the wall of Gath.

2Sa 8:1; 1Ch 18:1

Jabneh.Jabneh, or Jamnia, was given to the tribe of Dan; and was situated between Lydda and Azotus. It is now called Yebna, and is described as "a village about twelve miles distant from Jaffa, (Joppa,) in a fine open plain, surrounded by hills, and covered by herbage. On sloping hills of easy ascent, by which the plains were bordered, Yebna, Ekron, Ashdod, and Askalon were in sight."

about. or, in the country of.

1Sa 5:1,6

Nehemiah 13:23-24

married. Heb. made to dwell with them.

10:30; Ezr 9:2,11,12; 10:10,44; 2Co 6:14

Ashdod.

1Sa 5:1

Ammon.

1-3

could not speak. Heb. they discerned not to speak. eachpeople. Heb. people and people.

Zep 3:9

Isaiah 20:1

1 A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia.

Tartan.Tartan was one of the generals of Sennacherib, who, it is probable, is here called Sargon, and in the book of Tobit, Sacherdonus and Sacherdan, against whom Tirhakah, king of Cush or Ethiopia, was in league with the king of Egypt.

2Ki 18:17

Ashdod.

1Sa 6:17; Jer 25:20; Am 1:8

and took.

Jer 25:29,30

Amos 1:8

I will cut.

Isa 20:1; Jer 47:5; Eze 25:16

turn.

Ps 81:14; Isa 1:25; Zec 13:7

and the.

Isa 14:29-31; Jer 47:4,5; Eze 25:16; Zep 2:4-7