Bible Encyclopedia: Gath: One of the Five Chief Cities of the Philistines

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The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... Seren,* and the office of this chief was hereditary in one case at least"Gath, for
instance ... Saul (1 Samuel 29:2-4, 7, 9). Their number, five, is expressly ...
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Aron, Brother of Moses, 486, 487.
... Fulgentius, [417]91. Gaiuseius, [418]646. Gath, David in, [419]218. Gehenna. See
Hell. ... Psalms, though one book, divided into five books, [900]681. ...
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The Israelites
... ended in it, and which after five generations of ... cities were conquered, and soldiers
from Gath, where David ... The stronghold of the Jebusites was one of the last ...
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The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... Five or six of his descendants had passed away, and ... at length, find himself confronted
with one of the ... Arzania, Tela, and Khalua; ** Bubu, the Chief of Nishtun ...
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Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... him, and said, "Thou shouldest have smitten five or six ... 2; with regard to the
destruction of Gath by Hazael ... In their eyes Jahveh was the one God, compared with ...
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Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... way for peace in his Median domains, one of his ... Walls were built round ten cities,
five on the Urartian ... He devastated Ashdod, and its vassal, Gath, carried off ...
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Of Antichrist, and his Ruin: and of the Slaying the Witnesses.
... do but look back and compare Antichrist four or five hundred years ... the door of the
house of the OLD one; to the ... Thus Pharaoh and his chief ones did live to see ...
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Seasonable Counsel: Or, Advice to Sufferers.
... The savage monsters crying out, Kill, kill, from one end of a street or a place ... and
Doeg fell upon them, "and slew on that day four score and five persons that ...
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Nave's Topical Index

Joshua 13:3
From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
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1 Samuel 6:17
And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
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Amos 6:2
Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from there go you to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?
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Micah 1:10
Declare you it not at Gath, weep you not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll yourself in the dust.
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Subtopics

Gath

Gath: Anakim, a Race of Giants, Inhabitants of

Gath: Band of Gittites, Attached to David

Gath: Besieged by Uzziah

Gath: Called Methegammah In

Gath: Captured by David

Gath: Captured by Hazael

Gath: David Takes Refuge At

Gath: Fortified by Rehoboam

Gath: Goliath Lived In