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.
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Glossary
- Ashdod Place
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Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Tel Ashdod.
- Gath Place
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Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Tell es Safi.
- Jabneel Place
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Built by God. (1. ) A town in the north boundary of Judah ( Josh. 15:11 ), called afterwards by the Greeks Jamnia, the modern Yebna, 11 miles south of Jaffa. After the fall of Jerusalem. Modern identification: Yibna.
- Philistia Place
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Biblical region. Modern identification: Tel Ashkelon.