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Back along the
coastal road toward Tel Aviv
is another of the major
Philistine cities.
The Philistines who made the mistake of taking the Ark of the Covenant
and bringing it to Ashdod.{I
Samuel 5, 1-6}
Struck by a number of calamities,
returned the Ark to
the Israelites.
About four miles south of the present city is Tel Ashdod,
Mentioned as one of the cities allocated to the
tribe of Judah {Joshua
15:47}
Philip was the called to go into the desert and preach to a eunuch,
a
minister of the queen of Ethiopia.
Baptized the man and returned along the coast through Ashdod
where he
preached to its citizens {Acts 8}
Southern entrance is a bridge where the fledgling Israeli army stopped
the Egyptian Army's advance toward Tel Aviv in the 1948 War.
Ashdod's two power plants also supply roughly half of Israel's
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