1. PHILISTINES Coastal Plain of Palestine

2. Philistines mistrust David (1-11)

3. The Philistines began to envy him.

4. Then the Philistines ran for their lives.

5. Samson’s revenge on the Philistines (1-20)

6. Taking advantage of the situation, the Philistines invaded.

7. David given Ziklag by the Philistines (1-12)

8. Philistines return the Ark to Israel (1-21)

9. The Philistines got so scared that they all ran away.

10. The Philistines persecuted Isaac because they envied his growing prosperity.

11. [ Narrator ] Samson was given great strength. To drive out the Philistines.

12. For example, the Philistines banned any metalworkers from operating in Israel.

13. Better armed and better trained, the Philistines are the deadliest threat.

14. Valiant Shamgar single-handedly strikes down 600 Philistines using a cattle goad.

15. The Philistines, constant enemies of Israel, maintained a foothold to the west.

16. They had been in battle with the Philistines, enemies of Jehovah’s people.

17. On one occasion, Samson struck down 30 Philistines and stripped off their outfits.

18. * The Philistines were sworn enemies of Jehovah’s people, as Satan’s world is today.

19. The Philistines experienced like treatment at the hands of Alexander and his successors.

20. But after decades of struggle, he too has failed to halt the Philistines.

21. He himself had already led 1,000 poorly armed Israelites to victory over the Philistines.

22. Samson’s exploits against the Philistines centered on the coastal area around Gaza and Ashkelon.

23. During that time, Jehovah allowed Israel’s enemies, such as the Philistines, to oppress them.

24. Samson was intent on leading the fight against the Philistines on behalf of God’s people.

25. The Bible reports that “the Philistines collected together and came and pitched camp in Shunem.

26. “And Samson proceeded to say: ‘Let my soul die with the Philistines.’”—Judges 16:30.

27. Unlike the Philistines, the Moabites are related to Israel, being descendants of Abraham’s nephew Lot.

28. But the Philistines captured the Ark, killing Hophni and Phinehas. —1 Samuel 4:3-11.

29. “It was [Hezekiah] that struck down the Philistines clear to Gaza and also its territories.”

30. Philistines now overpowered Samson, blinded him, and put him in prison. —Judges 16:18-21.

31. Wherefore now return , and go in peace , that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

32. Hophni and Phinehas died in the battle, and the Philistines captured the ark of Jehovah’s covenant.

33. The Philistines had “seized by violence” a well of water dug by Abraham’s servants at Beer-sheba.

34. When the Philistines found his corpse, they fastened it on the wall of the city of Beth-shan.

35. (2 Kings 18:8) According to the annals of Assyrian King Sennacherib, the Philistines become subjects of Hezekiah.

36. A pim measure of silver scrap was the price the Philistines charged the Israelites for sharpening their tools.

37. At Judges 16:30 we read: “And Samson proceeded to say: ‘Let my soul die with the Philistines.’”

38. Harold Acton (1904-1994) was a writer, scholar and Aesthete who listed as his principal recreation 'hunting the philistines'

39. The Philistines had pillaged their land and prevented them from defending themselves. —1 Samuel 13:5, 6, 17-19.

40. He takes his stand in a field of barley and single-handedly strikes down the Philistines with the sword.

41. Beelzebub first appears in the Old Testament in 2 Kings, being worshipped by the Philistines in the city of Ekron

42. So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe.

43. David’s forces were ordered to leave on the following morning, and then the Philistines advanced to the battle site at Jezreel.

44. 9 The nearest route for the Israelites to take is by the Mediterranean Sea and through the land of the Philistines.

45. (1Sa 28:4) The account thereafter indicates that the Philistines advanced to Aphek while Israel descended to the spring at Jezreel.

46. Arameans from the east and Philistines from the west— and they devour Israel with open mouths! "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike." JPS Tanakh 1917 The Arameans on the east, and the Philistines on …

47. The Phoenicians called her Astarte, the Assyrians worshiped her as Ishtar, and the Philistines had a temple of Asherah (1 Samuel 31:10)

48. Jehovah’s presence continued to be demonstrated when the Philistines captured the Ark and took it to Ashdod to sit alongside the image of Dagon.

49. Because of the divinely sent earthquake, turmoil spread among the Philistines, so that “the sword of each one [came] to be against his fellowman.”

50. The days of Samuel brought additional reverses for the Philistines (1Sa 7:13, 14) and proved to be a period marked by outstanding Passover celebrations.

51. The discovery is telling experts a lot about the ancient Canaanites and Philistines and the politics and wars in the period of the Judges

52. One day, when David and Saul returned victorious from their combat with the Philistines, triumphant and joyful music came to the ears of the king.

53. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” 4 So the Israelites put away the Baals and Ashtoreths and served only the

54. Biblical site of Ziklag finally identified? After King Saul was killed in battle with the Philistines, David left Ziklag and traveled to Hebron to be anointed king of Israel.

55. (1:3–2:3; 3:1-5) His adverse judgments would be visited not only upon Judah and Jerusalem but also upon other peoples —the Philistines, Ammonites, Moabites, Ethiopians, and Assyrians. —2:4-15.

56. (Exodus 34:11-16) Hence, the parents objected: “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers and among all my people a woman, so that you are going to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?”

57. Isaiah prophesies about how Jehovah will use this new political alignment: “The enemies of that one [Israel] he [Jehovah] will goad on, Syria from the east and the Philistines from behind, and they will eat up Israel with open mouth.

58. According to Talmudic sources, the tent sanctuary remained at Shiloh for 369 years until the Ark of the Covenant was taken into the battle camp at Eben-Ezer (1 Samuel 4:3–5) and captured by the Philistines at Aphek (probably Antipatris).

59. Bestir (4 Occurrences) 2 Samuel 5:24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt Bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines

60. Basileia (Ancient Greece) - in Pandemos, this goddess was mainly a goddess for prostitutes or Courtesans; Bebhinn (Celts of the British Isles) - the goddess of pleasure; Belili (Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Philistines, & Canaanites) - her worship required sacred prostitution; Gomer, a prostitute whom God commanded Hosea to marry in the biblical

61. According to this view, the meaning of the above-cited prophecies of Ezekiel and Zephaniah would be that Jehovah was going to bring vengeance and woe upon all the inhabitants of the cities of Philistia, both the Philistines and the Cherethites, prophecies apparently brought to fulfillment by the Babylonians.

62. Bestir (4 Occurrences) 2 Samuel 5:24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt Bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines

63. Charred (4 Occurrences) Judges 15:14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

64. 1Sa 17:46 - This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the Carcases H6297 of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

65. This day Jehovah will surrender you into my hand, and I shall certainly strike you down and remove your head off you; and I shall certainly give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowls of the heavens and to the wild beasts of the earth; and people of all the earth will know that there exists a God belonging to Israel.

66. And you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your Bowels, until your Bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.’” Then the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who bordered the Ethiopians; and they came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king’s house together with his sons and his wives, so

67. Appeased (11 Occurrences) Acts 19:35 And when the townclerk had Appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter? (KJV WBS) 1 Samuel 13:12 and I say, Now do the Philistines come down unto me to Gilgal, and the face of Jehovah I have not