One of the five cities of the southern coastal plain, where the captured ark of the covenant is brought into of and the idol is found fallen on its face with its head and hands broken off. of breaks down its walls, and names it as the city where Sargon's commander campaigned in his prophecy of a sign against Egypt and Cush. After , confronts men who had married women of Ashdod and whose children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and the prophets denounce it alongside the other Philistine centers.
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Modern location: Tel Ashdod. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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