GAZA

Passages on this topic · 40

• Genesis 10:19

  The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon — as you go toward Gerar — to Gaza — as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim — to Lasha.

• Deuteronomy 2:23

  and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)

• 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,

• Joshua 15:47

  Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.

• Judges 1:18

  Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border.

• Judges 6:4

  They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. They left no sustenance in Israel, and no sheep, ox, or donkey.

• Judges 16:21

  The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

• Judges 16:22

  However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

• Judges 16:23

  The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”

• Judges 16:24

  When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, “Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand.”

• Judges 16:25

  When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

• Judges 16:26

  and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, “Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them.”

• Judges 16:27

  Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.

• Judges 16:28

  Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

• Judges 16:29

  Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.

• Judges 16:30

  Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

• Judges 16:31

  Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.

• 1 Kings 4:24

  For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

• 1 Chronicles 7:28

  Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;

• Jeremiah 25:20

  and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

• Jeremiah 47:1

  Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza.

• Amos 1:6

  Yahweh 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;

• Amos 1:7

  but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it will devour its palaces.

• Zephaniah 2:4

  For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.

• Zechariah 9:5

  Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

• Acts 8:26

  But 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.”

• Acts 8:27

  He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

• Acts 8:28

  He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

• Acts 8:29

  The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

• Acts 8:30

  Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

• Acts 8:31

  He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

• Acts 8:32

  Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

• Acts 8:33

  In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

• Acts 8:34

  The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”

• Acts 8:35

  Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

• Acts 8:36

  As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

• Acts 8:37
• Acts 8:38

  He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

• Acts 8:39

  When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.