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Ashdod אשדוד

Places

Port city south of Tel Aviv, and today Israel's largest port. In the Bible it was a Philistine stronghold that held the captured Ark of the Covenant.

Illustration from the book. Photographs, where shown, are from Wikimedia Commons, with author and license beside each. Click a photograph to enlarge it.

Sources

  • The book Israel NOWlej by Richard J. Koret, glossary, page 176.