Ashkelon

Sources and location confidence

Location confidence

Very High

Tel Ashkelon

31.6619, 34.5461

Both sources point to the Tel Ashkelon National Park site, and their coordinates nearly match.

• Wikidata ↗
• Wikipedia (Ashkelon National Park) ↗

Related Bible passages

These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.

• Judges 14:19

  And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

• 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.

• Zechariah 9:5

  Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

• Jeremiah 47:5

  Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

• Zephaniah 2:7

  And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

• Jeremiah 47:7

  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.