What was Ashkelon in the Bible?
Ashkelon was the oldest and largest seaport in Canaan, part of the pentapolis (a grouping of five cities) of the Philistines, north of Gaza and south of Jaffa. Where is Ashkelon in the Bible today? Ashqelon, also spelled Ashkelon, classical Ascalon, or Askalon, city on the coastal plain of Palestine, since 1948 in southwestern Israel….