No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.
Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in hei
from Ekron to the sea, all the cities near Ashdod, along with their villages;
Some time later, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Gath and its villages from the hand of the Phili
Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,
and Beriah and Shema (who were the heads of families living in Aijalon and who drove out the inhabitants of Gath).
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new swor
After three years, however, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And Shimei was told,
the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Leb
After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,
three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of
Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. Then he bui