GATH

Passages on this topic · 38

• Joshua 11:22

  There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

• Joshua 13:3

  from 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,

• 1 Samuel 5:8

  They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.” They carried the ark of the God of Israel there.

• 1 Samuel 6:17

  These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

• 1 Samuel 17:4

  A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.

• 1 Samuel 21:10

  David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 21:11

  The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’”

• 1 Samuel 21:12

  David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 21:13

  He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

• 1 Samuel 21:14

  Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?

• 1 Samuel 21:15

  Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”

• 1 Samuel 27:2

  David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 27:3

  David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.

• 1 Samuel 27:4

  Saul was told that David had fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

• 1 Samuel 27:5

  David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”

• 1 Samuel 27:6

  Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.

• 1 Samuel 27:7

  The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

• 2 Samuel 6:10

  So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.

• 2 Samuel 8:1

  After this, David struck the Philistines and subdued them; and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

• 2 Samuel 15:18

  All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

• 2 Samuel 15:19

  Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

• 2 Samuel 15:20

  Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

• 2 Samuel 15:21

  Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”

• 2 Samuel 15:22

  David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.

• 1 Kings 2:39

  At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”

• 1 Kings 2:40

  Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his slaves; and Shimei went, and brought his slaves from Gath.

• 1 Kings 2:41

  Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.

• 2 Kings 12:17

  Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 13:25

  Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Joash struck him three times, and recovered the cities of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 18:1

  After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

• 1 Chronicles 20:5

  Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

• 1 Chronicles 20:6

  There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.

• 1 Chronicles 20:7

  When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.

• 1 Chronicles 20:8

  These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

• 2 Chronicles 11:8

  Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

• 2 Chronicles 26:6

  He went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

• Amos 6:2

  Go to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?

• Micah 1:10

  Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.