Places of the Bible
Ashdod
City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Ashdod, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 1 verse
- Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 2 verses
- Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Zephaniah · 609 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Zechariah · 519 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Stronghold, a Philistine city (Josh. 15:47), about midway between Gaza and Joppa, and 3 miles from the Mediterranean. It was one of the chief seats of the worship of Dagon (1 Sam. 5:5). It belonged to the tribe of Judah (Josh. 15:47), but it never came into their actual possession. It was an important city, as it stood on the highroad from Egypt to Palestine, and hence was strongly fortified (2 Chr. 26:6; Isa. 20:1). Uzziah took it, but fifty years after his death it was taken by the Assyrians (B.C. 758). According to Sargon’s record, it was captured by him in B.C. 711. The only reference to it in the New Testament, where it is called Azotus, is in the account of Philip’s return from Gaza (Acts 8:40). It is now called Eshdud.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 19 verses
- Joshua
- 11:22, 13:3, 15:46, 15:47
- 1 Samuel
- 5:1, 5:3, 5:5, 5:6, 5:7, 6:17
- 2 Chronicles
- 26:6
- Nehemiah
- 13:23, 13:24
- Isaiah
- 20:1
- Jeremiah
- 25:20
- Amos
- 1:8, 3:9
- Zephaniah
- 2:4
- Zechariah
- 9:6
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.