Places of the Bible
Ekron
City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Ekron, 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.
- Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 1 verse
- David Kills Goliath · 1066 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Elijah · 909 BC · 4 verses
- Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Zephaniah · 609 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Zechariah · 519 BC · 2 verses
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Firm-rooted, the most northerly of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, about 11 miles north of Gath. It was assigned to Judah (Josh. 13:3), and afterwards to Dan (19:43), but came again into the full possession of the Philistines (1 Sam. 5:10). It was the last place to which the Philistines carried the ark before they sent it back to Israel (1 Sam. 5:10; 6:1-8). There was here a noted sanctuary of Baal-zebub (2 Kings 1: 2, 3, 6, 16). Now the small village Akir. It is mentioned on monuments in B.C. 702, when Sennacherib set free its king, imprisoned by Hezekiah in Jerusalem, according to the Assyrian record.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 20 verses
- Joshua
- 13:3, 15:11, 15:45, 15:46, 19:43
- Judges
- 1:18
- 1 Samuel
- 5:10, 6:16, 6:17, 7:14, 17:52
- 2 Kings
- 1:2, 1:3, 1:6, 1:16
- Jeremiah
- 25:20
- Amos
- 1:8
- Zephaniah
- 2:4
- Zechariah
- 9:5, 9:7
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.