According to Joshua 13:3 and 1 Samuel 6:17, the land of the Philistines (or Allophyloi), called Philistia, was a
pentapolis in the southwestern Levant comprising the five city-states of
Gaza,
Ashkelon,
Ashdod,
Ekron, and Gath, from
Wadi Gaza in the south to the
Yarqon River in the north, but with no fixed border to the ...
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