PHILISTINES

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• Genesis 10:14

  Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.

• Exodus 13:17

  When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;

• Exodus 23:31

  I 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.

• 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 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 3:3

  the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

• Judges 3:4

  They were left to test Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to Yahweh’s commandments, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.

• Judges 3:31

  After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck six hundred men of the Philistines with an ox goad. He also saved Israel.

• Judges 16:5

  The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

• 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.

• 1 Samuel 4:6

  When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that Yahweh’s ark had come into the camp.

• 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 5:11

  They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

• 1 Samuel 6:4

  Then they said, “What should the trespass offering be which we shall return to him?” They said, “Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, for the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

• 1 Samuel 6:12

  The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.

• 1 Samuel 7:7

  When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 9:16

  “Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

• 1 Samuel 13:5

  The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

• 1 Samuel 18:22

  Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”

• 1 Samuel 18:23

  Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?”

• 1 Samuel 18:24

  The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”

• 1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 18:26

  When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

• 1 Samuel 18:28

  Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.

• 1 Samuel 18:29

  Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

• 1 Samuel 18:30

  Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

• 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.

• 1 Samuel 27:8

  David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 27:9

  David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.

• 1 Samuel 27:10

  Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”

• 1 Samuel 27:11

  David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”

• 1 Samuel 27:12

  Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”

• 1 Samuel 28:1

  In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men.”

• 1 Samuel 28:2

  David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever.”

• 1 Samuel 29:2

  The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

• 1 Samuel 29:6

  Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

• 1 Samuel 29:7

  Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.”

• 1 Samuel 30:14

  We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

• 1 Samuel 30:15

  David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

• 1 Samuel 30:16

  When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

• 2 Samuel 5:17

  When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard about it and went down to the stronghold.

• 2 Samuel 5:18

  Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

• 2 Samuel 5:19

  David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to David, “Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

• 2 Samuel 5:20

  David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

• 2 Samuel 5:21

  They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.

• 2 Samuel 5:22

  The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

• 2 Samuel 5:23

  When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.

• 2 Samuel 5:24

  When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

• 2 Samuel 5:25

  David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.

• 2 Samuel 23:9

  After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel had gone away.

• 2 Samuel 23:10

  He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.

• 2 Samuel 23:11

  After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.

• 2 Samuel 23:12

  But he stood in the middle of the plot and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh worked a great victory.

• 2 Samuel 23:13

  Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

• 2 Samuel 23:14

  David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

• 2 Samuel 23:15

  David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

• 2 Samuel 23:16

  The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 18:8

  He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

• 1 Chronicles 1:12

  Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim.

• 1 Chronicles 10:1

  Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

• 1 Chronicles 14:8

  When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went out against them.

• 1 Chronicles 14:9

  Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

• 1 Chronicles 14:10

  David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.”

• 1 Chronicles 14:11

  So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

• 1 Chronicles 14:12

  They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burned with fire.

• 1 Chronicles 14:13

  The Philistines made a another raid in the valley.

• 1 Chronicles 14:14

  David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.

• 1 Chronicles 14:15

  When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

• 1 Chronicles 14:16

  David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

• 2 Chronicles 17:11

  Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.

• Isaiah 9:11

  Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,

• Isaiah 9:12

  The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

• Isaiah 14:29

  Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

• Isaiah 14:30

  The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

• Isaiah 14:31

  Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

• Jeremiah 25:17

  Then took I the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:

• Jeremiah 25:18

  Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;

• Jeremiah 25:19

  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

• 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 47:4

  because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

• Ezekiel 25:15

  Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;

• Ezekiel 25:16

  therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

• Ezekiel 25:17

  I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

• 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.

• Amos 1:8

  I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Amos 9:7

  Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

• 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.

• Zephaniah 2:5

  Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.

• Zephaniah 2:6

  The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

• Zephaniah 2:7

  The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.

• 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.

• Zechariah 9:6

  Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

• Zechariah 9:7

  I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.