Biblical places
Ashdod
One of the five Philistine cities, site of the temple of Dagon, where the Philistines placed the captured ark of the covenant and suffered plagues as a result (1 Samuel 5). The ancient site lies at Tel Ashdod, southeast of the modern city.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Tel Ashdod
- 31.7578, 34.6586
The ancient tell is distinguished from the modern city of the same name; the two sources' tell coordinates are close and agree.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
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.
1 Samuel 5:1
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
2 Chronicles 26:6
And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
Isaiah 20:1
In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
Jeremiah 25:20
And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Amos 1:8
And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.
Zephaniah 2:4
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.