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AZOTUS , the name given by See also:

Greek and Ronan writers to Ashdod, an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Palestine, now represented by a few remains in the little See also:village of `Esdud, in the governmental See also:district of See also:Acre. It was situated about 3 M. inland from the Mediterranean, on the famous military route between See also:Syria and See also:Egypt, about equidistant (18 m.) from See also:Joppa and See also:Gaza. As one of the five See also:chief cities of the See also:Philistines and the seat of the See also:worship of See also:Dagon (I Sam. v.; cf. I Macc. x. 83), it maintained, down even to the days of the See also:Maccabees, a vigorous thoughsomewhat intermittent See also:independence against the See also:power of the Israelites, by whom it was nominally assigned to the territory of See also:Judah. In 711 B.C. it was captured by the Assyrians (Is. xx. I), but soon regained its power, and was strong enough in the next See also:century to resist the assaults of See also:Psammetichus, See also:king of Egypt, for twenty-nine years (See also:Herod. ii. 157). Restored by the See also:Roman See also:Gabinius from the ruins to which it had been reduced by the Jewish See also:wars (1 Macc. v. 68, x. 77, xvi. 1o), it was presented' by See also:Augustus to See also:Salome, the See also:sister of Herod.

The only New Testament reference is in Acts viii. 40. Ashdod became the seat-of a See also:

bishop See also:early in the See also:Christian era, but seems never to have attained any importance as a See also:town. The See also:Mount Azotus of , Macc. ix. 15, where Judas Maccabeus See also:fell, is possibly the rising ground on which the village stands. A See also:fine Saracenic See also:khan is the See also:principal relic of antiquity at `Esdud.

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