⁴⁶ From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.

¹ Now the Philistines, having taken the ark of God, took it with them from Eben-ezer to Ashdod.

⁶ But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.

⁶ He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

²³ And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

²⁴ And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.

¹ In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;

⁸ Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.