Ashdod
(Joshua 15:47)
“Ashdod with its towns and its villages, Gaza with its towns and its villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and its coastline.”
The ancient harbor of Ashdod was situated at Ashdod Yam, south of the new city near Tel Ashdod which is the site of the ancient Biblical Ashdod, one of the five cities of the Philistines.. This important Canaanite city lay on the Via Maris and was taken by the Philistines. It was to Ashdod that the Philistines brought the Ark of the Covenant after capturing it at ………..
