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Encyclopedia Britannica



AZOTUS

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 85 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
AZOTUS , the name given by Greek and Ronan writers to Ashdod, an ancient city of Palestine, now represented by a few remains in the little
village
  of `Esdud, in the governmental
district
  of Acre. It was situated about 3 M. inland from the Mediterranean, on the famous military route between Syria and
Egypt
 , about equidistant (18 m.) from Joppa and Gaza. As one of the five
chief
  cities of the Philistines and the seat of the
worship
  of Dagon (I Sam. v.; cf. I Macc. x. 83), it maintained, down even to the days of the Maccabees, a vigorous thoughsomewhat intermittent independence against the power of the Israelites, by whom it was nominally assigned to the territory of Judah. In 711 B.C. it was captured by the Assyrians (Is. xx. I), but soon regained its power, and was strong enough in the next century to resist the assaults of Psammetichus, king of
Egypt
 , for twenty-nine years (
Herod
 . ii. 157). Restored by the Roman Gabinius from the ruins to which it had been reduced by the Jewish wars (1 Macc. v. 68, x. 77, xvi. 1o), it was presented' by
Augustus
  to Salome, the
sister
  of
Herod
 . The only New Testament reference is in Acts viii. 40. Ashdod became the seat-of a
bishop
  early in the Christian era, but seems never to have attained any importance as a town. The
Mount
  Azotus of , Macc. ix. 15, where Judas Maccabeus fell, is possibly the rising ground on which the
village
  stands. A fine Saracenic khan is the principal relic of antiquity at `Esdud.


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