Ekron and her villages, and their hamlets:

Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

And they send away the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass when the ark of God went into Ekron, that the men of Ekron cried out, saying, Why have you brought back the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people?

And the cities which the Philistines took from the children of Israel were restored; and they restored them to Israel from Ekron to Gath. And they took the coast of Israel out of the hand of the Philistines; and there was peace between Israel and the Amorite.

[Now] Ahaziah fell through the lattice that was in his upper chamber in Samaria, and was sick. And he sent messengers, and said to them, Go and inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this my sickness. And they went to inquire of him.

And an angel of the Lord called Elijah the Tishbite, saying, Arise, and go to meet the messengers of Ahaziah king of Samaria, and you shall say to them, [Is it] because there is no God in Israel, [that] you go to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? But [it shall] not [be] so.

And they said to him, A man came up to meet us, and said to us, Go, return to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus says the Lord: [Is it] because there is no God in Israel, [that] you go to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? [It shall] not [be] so: the bed on which you have gone up, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.

And Elijah spoke to him, and said, Thus says the Lord: Why have you sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? [It shall] not [be] so; the bed on which you have gone up, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.

Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,