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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 15:46

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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From Ekron even unto the sea, etc.] The Mediterranean sea, or the west, as the Targum: all that [lay] near Ashdod, with their villages; this is the Azotus of the New Testament, (<440840>Acts 8:40), another of the principalities of the Philistines, of which and Ekron (see Gill on “Amos 1:8”) and (see Gill on “<360204>Zephaniah 2:4”).
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