Ekron
Proper noun
Meaning
Ekron
(historical) One of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis, located in central Israel.
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Examples
And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
David Eitam will be lecturing at Yeshiva University on Monday, September 29 on “The Oil Enterprise at 7th Century BCE City-Kingdom of Ekron, Philistia: A Window into an Ancient Levantine Economy.”
Josephus (h) says, the Danites enjoyed the vale which lies to the setting sun, bounded by Azotus and Doris, and all Jamnia and Getta, from Accaron (or Ekron) to the mountain from whence the tribe of Judah begins."
Ekron called on Egypt for help but the Egyptians were defeated.
Ekron seems to have represented the northern border of Philistia.
He besieged the city and gave its surrounding towns to Assyrian vassal rulers in Ekron, Gaza and Ashdod.