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Joshua 11:22: there were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain. 1 Samuel 5:8 says, “They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, ‘What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?’ They answered, ‘Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.’ They carried the ark of the God of Israel there”; 5:9 says that after they had carried it there, the LORD’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion, and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them; 6:17 gives one of the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD “for Gath”; and 7:14 says that the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath. 1 Samuel 21:10–12 says that David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath, and that he laid up the words of the servants of Achish in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 1 Samuel 27:3 says that David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household; 27:4, that Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him; and 27:11, that David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath. 2 Samuel 21:20–22 says that there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, and he also was born to the giant, and that Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him; and it says, “These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.”
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- 1CH 18:1–2, engwebp
1After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
2He defeated Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
- 1CH 20:4–8, engwebp
4After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
5Again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
6There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.
7When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.
8These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
- 1KI 2:39–46, engwebp
39At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”
40Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.
41Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.
42The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Didn’t I adjure you by the LORD and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and walk anywhere else, you shall surely die’? You said to me, ‘The saying that I have heard is good.’
43Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”
44The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore the LORD will return your wickedness on your own head.
45But King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before the LORD forever.”
46So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1SA 5:8–9, engwebp
8They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.” They carried the ark of the God of Israel there.
9It was so, that after they had carried it there, the LORD’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.
- 1SA 6:17–18, engwebp
17These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone on which they set down the LORD’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
- 1SA 7:13–14, engwebp
13So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped coming within the border of Israel. The LORD’s hand was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
14The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
- 1SA 17:4–11, engwebp
4A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.
5He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
6He had bronze shin armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.
7The staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.
8He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
9If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us.”
10The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
11When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
- 1SA 17:17–24, engwebp
17Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;
18and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand; and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”
19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.
21Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
22David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
23As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them.
24All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were terrified.
- 1SA 17:52–54, engwebp
52The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron.
53The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
54David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.
- 1SA 21:10–15, engwebp
10David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
11The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”
12David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
14Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me?
15Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?”
- 1SA 27:1–4, engwebp
1David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”
2David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
3David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
4Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him.
- 1SA 27:8–12, engwebp
8David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
9David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.
10Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”
11David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”
12Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant forever.”
- 2CH 11:6–10, engwebp
6He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
7Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam,
8Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,
9Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
10Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
- 2CH 26:6–8, engwebp
6He went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
7God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
8The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt, for he grew exceedingly strong.
- 2KI 12:17–18, engwebp
17Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
18Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the LORD’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
- 2SA 1:17–27, engwebp
17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
18(and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
19“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
20Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
21You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
22From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
23Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.
24You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
25How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.
26I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women.
27How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”
- 2SA 15:13–18, engwebp
13A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”
14David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee, or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
15The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.”
16The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
17The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
18All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
- 2SA 21:18–22, engwebp
18After this, there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
19There was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite’s brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
20There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was born to the giant.
21When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.
22These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
- AMO 6:1–7, engwebp
1Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
2Go to Calneh, and see. From there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Is their border greater than your border?
3Alas for you who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
4who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall,
5who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
6who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive. The feasting and lounging will end.
- JOS 11:21–22, engwebp
21Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
22There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
- MIC 1:8–16, engwebp
8For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.
9For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
10Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
11Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
12For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
13Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
14Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
15I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
16Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture, for they have gone into captivity from you!
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Narrated location (8) — The ark of the God of Israel carried over to Gath, and tumors break out on the men of the city, David passes over with six hundred men and lives with Achish at Gath, The wars at Gob and at Gath, and the four born to the giant in Gath, Shimei goes to Gath and brings back his slaves, Benaiah falls on him, and the kingdom is established in the hand of Solomon, Hazael king of Syria takes Gath, and Jehoash king of Judah sends him the holy things and the gold, Gath and its towns, which David takes out of the hand of the Philistines, and the Moabites, who become servants to David, The wars with the Philistines, and those born to the giant in Gath, who fell by the hand of David and his servants, Uzziah fights the Philistines and receives Ammonite tribute
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There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.” They carried the ark of the God of Israel there.
These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel recovered its border out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron.
David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him.
David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’”
Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was born to the giant.
These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
At the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your slaves are in Gath.”
Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his slaves; and Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath.
Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
After this, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
There was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six on each hand and six on each foot; and he also was born to the giant.
These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,
Go to Calneh, and see. From there go to Hamath the great. Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Is their border greater than your border?
Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Gath (place-gath) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/gath Current wording: Joshua 11:22: there were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain. 1 Samuel 5:8 says, “They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, ‘What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?’ They answered, ‘Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.’ They carried the ark of the God of Israel there”; 5:9 says that after they had carried it there, the LORD’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion, and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them; 6:17 gives one of the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the LORD “for Gath”; and 7:14 says that the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath. 1 Samuel 21:10–12 says that David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath, and that he laid up the words of the servants of Achish in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 1 Samuel 27:3 says that David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household; 27:4, that Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him; and 27:11, that David saved neither man nor woman alive to bring them to Gath. 2 Samuel 21:20–22 says that there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, and he also was born to the giant, and that Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him; and it says, “These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.” Cited evidence: 1CH 18:1–2, engwebp / 1CH 20:4–8, engwebp / 1KI 2:39–46, engwebp / 1SA 5:8–9, engwebp / 1SA 6:17–18, engwebp / 1SA 7:13–14, engwebp / 1SA 17:4–11, engwebp / 1SA 17:17–24, engwebp (and 13 more of 21) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.