ASHKELON, One of the five chief cities of the Philistines
from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the ASHKELONites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,