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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 140 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EKRON (better, as in the Septuagint and Josephus, ACCARON, 'AKhapWV)  , a royal city of the
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Philistines commonly identified with the
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modern Syrian
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village of `Akir, 5 M. from Ramleh, on the
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southern slope of a low ridge separating the plain of Philistia from
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Sharon . It
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lay inland and off the main
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line of
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traffic . Though included by the Israelites within the limits of the tribe of
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Judah, and mentioned in Judges xix. as one of the cities of
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Dan, it was in
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Philistine possession in the days of
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Samuel, and apparently maintained its independence . According to the narrative of the
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Hebrew text, here differing from the Greek text and Josephus (which read Askelon), it was the last
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town to which the ark was transferred before its restoration to the Israelites . Its maintenance of a sanctuary of
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Baal Zebub is mentioned in 2 Kings i . From
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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
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notice of its
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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
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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 .

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