Ashdod

“I live and breathe it,” she said from her house in Ashdod, a city about 20 miles north of Gaza.

“It gives me tranquility,” said Batya Katzir, another Ashdod resident.

The man opted to stay in Ashdod rather than travel on the bus with her.

After a long siege Ashdod was taken, and the control of the road into Palestine was thus secured.

Ashdod, a place on the coast of Palestine, formerly one of the chief cities of the Philistines, now an insignificant village.

Philip after this adventure, made his appearance at Ashdod, or Azote.

Ashdod became the seat of a bishop early in the Christian era, but seems never to have attained any importance as a town.

This desire of the people of Ashdod was not disagreeable to those of Askelon, so they granted them that favor.