Joshua 15:47
Ashdod, its towns and its villages, Gaza, its towns and its villages, to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [of it].
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
46from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
48And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
Cross References
Exodus 23:31And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and thou shall drive them out before thee.
Deuteronomy 2:23And the Avvim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
Joshua 13:3from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekron
Judges 16:1And Samson went to Gaza, and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.
2 Kings 18:8He smote the Philistines to Gaza and the borders of it, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
Jeremiah 47:1The word of LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 15:21-63
The Lot of Judah. ( b. c. 1444.) 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, 22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, 23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, 24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, 25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, 26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, 27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and… Read the whole commentary →