Dict: easton - Ekron

easton:

Ekron @ firm-rooted, the most northerly of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, about 11 miles north of Gath. It was assigned to Judah kjv@Joshua:13:3), and afterwards to Dan (19:43), but came again into the full possession of the Philistines ( kjv@1Samuel:5:10). It was the last place to which the Philistines carried the ark before they sent it back to Israel ( kjv@1Samuel:5:10 kjv@1Samuel:6:1-8). There was here a noted sanctuary of Baal-zebub ( kjv@2Kings:1:2 kjv@2Kings:1:3 kjv@2Kings:1:6, 16). Now the small village Akir. It is mentioned on monuments in B.C. 702, when Sennacherib set free its king, imprisoned by Hezekiah in Jerusalem, according to the Assyrian record.