1;  The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod, set it
     in the house of Dagon.
  3;  Dagon is smitten down and cut in pieces, and they of Ashdod
     smitten with emerods.
  8;  So God deals with them of Gath, when it was brought
     thither;
 10;  and so with them of Ekron, when it was brought thither.

 * took.
  4:11,17,18,22  Ps 78:61 
 * Eben-ezer.
  4:1  7:12 
 * Ashdod.
   Ashdod, called Azotus by the Greeks, was one of the five
   satrapies of the Philistines, and a place of great strength
   and consequence.  It was situated near the Mediterranean,
   between Askelon and Jamnia, thirty-four miles north of Gaza,
   according to Diodorus Siculus, and the Antonine and Jerusalem
   Itineraries.  It is now called Shdood; and Dr. Richardson says
   they neither saw nor heard of any ruins there.  "The ground,"
   he observes, "around Ashdod is beautifully undulating, but not
   half stocked with cattle.  The site of the town is on the
   summit of a grassy hill; and, if we are to believe historians,
   was anciently as strong as it was beautiful."

  Jos 11:22  Ac 8:40 
 * Azotus.