I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; And I will turn my hand against Ekron; And the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord Yahweh.
this was so strong a place, that, according to Herodotus t, it held out a siege of twenty nine years, under Psammitichus king of Egypt. It was, according to Diodorus Siculus u, thirty four miles, from Gaza before mentioned; and it was about eight or nine from Ashkelon, and fourteen or fifteen from Ekron after mentioned: