Dict: smith - EKRON

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EKRON - E>@ - (torn up by the roots; emigration), one of the five towns belonging to the lords of the Philistines, and the most northerly of the five. kjv@Joshua:13:3) Like the other Philistine cities its situation was in the lowlands. It fell to the lot of Judah. kjv@Joshua:15:45-46; kjv@Judges:1:18) Afterwards we find it mentioned among the cities of Dan. kjv@Joshua:19:43) Before the monarchy it was again in full possession of the Philistines. ( kjv@1Samuel:5:10) Akir , the modern representative of Ekron, lies about five miles southwest of Ramleh . In the Apocrypha it appears as ACCARON. 1Macc 10:89 only.