Treasury of Scripture
Also Judah. There is the following remarkable variation here in the Septuagint: But Judah did not possess Gaza, nor the coasts thereof; nor Askelon, nor the coasts thereof; nor Ekron, nor the coasts thereof; nor Ashdod, nor the coasts thereof.' Procopius and Augustine read the same; and Josephus says that the Israelites only took Askelon and Ashdod, but not Gaza or Ekron; and from ch.
Judges 3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelled in mount Lebanon...
, and the whole succeeding history, it appears that these cities were not in the possession of the Israelites, but of the Philistines. Gaza
Judges 3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelled in mount Lebanon...
Judges 16:1,2,21 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in to her...
Exodus 23:31 And I will set your bounds from the Red sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river...
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.
Joshua 13:3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite...
Joshua 15:45-47 Ekron, with her towns and her villages...
1 Samuel 6:17 And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one...