→ Also called ASKELON
→ One of the five chief cities of the Philistines Jos 13:3
→ Captured by the people of Judah Jud 1:18
→ Samson kills thirty men of Jud 14:19
→ Emerods (tumors, R. V.) of 1Sa 6:17
→ Prophecies concerning Jer 25:20; 47:5,7; Am 1:8; Zep 2:4,7; Zec 9:5