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EKRON (better, as in the Septuagint and Josephus, ACCARON, 'AKhapWV)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 140 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
EKRON (better, as in the Septuagint and Josephus, ACCARON, 'AKhapWV) , a royal city of the Philistines commonly identified with the modern Syrian
village
  of `Akir, 5 M. from Ramleh, on the southern slope of a low
ridge
  separating the plain of Philistia from Sharon. It lay inland and off the main line of
traffic
 . Though included by the Israelites within the limits of the tribe of Judah, and mentioned in
Judges
  xix. as one of the cities of Dan, it was in
Philistine
  possession in the days of Samuel, and apparently maintained its independence. According to the narrative of the Hebrew text, here differing from the Greek text and Josephus (which read Askelon), it was the last town to which the ark was transferred before its restoration to the Israelites. Its maintenance of a sanctuary of Baal Zebub is mentioned in 2 Kings i. From Assyrian
inscriptions
  it has been gathered that Padi, king of Ekron, was for a time the vassal of Hezekiah of Judah, but regained his independence when the latter was hard pressed by
Sennacherib
 . A notice of its history in 147 B.C. is found in 1 Macc. x. 89; after the fall of Jerusalem A.D. 70 it was settled by
Jews
 . At the time of the crusades it was still a large
village
 . Recently a Jewish agricultural colony has been settled there. The houses are built of mud, and in the
absence
  of visible remains of antiquity, the identification of the site is questionable. The neighbourhood is fertile. (R. A. S. M.)


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