Ashdod with its towns and villages, Gaza with its towns and villages—as far as the Brook of Egypt and the Great Sea with its coastline.
Parallel translations
- WEB Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.
- KJV Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:
- BSB Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.
- NASB Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages, as far as the brook of Egypt and the Great Sea, even its coastline.
- NLT It also included Ashdod with its surrounding settlements and villages and Gaza with its settlements and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Quick answer
Ashdod and Gaza with their towns and villages reach to the brook of Egypt and the great sea. The full coastal extent is described.
Overview
Ashdod and Gaza were major Philistine cities, and Gaza later figured in Samson's story (Judges 16). Their inclusion marks the ideal southwestern boundary of Judah's inheritance to the Mediterranean. The gap between this generous grant and Israel's incomplete possession underscores that fullness of inheritance awaits faithful obedience, ultimately fulfilled in Christ.
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- Josh 15:4and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
- Jer 47:5Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
- Exod 23:31I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
- Acts 8:26But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”
- Zeph 2:4For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
- Josh 13:3from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
- Judg 16:1–21Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.
- Num 34:5–6The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.
- Amos 1:6–7Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom;
- Jer 47:1Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.
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