For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the River, from Tifsach even to `Aza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had shalom on all sides round about him.
and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the `Utz, and all the kings of the Pelishtim, and Ashkelon, and `Aza, and `Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
because of the day that comes to destroy all the Pelishtim, to cut off from Tzor and Tzidon every helper who remains: for the LORD will destroy the Pelishtim, the remnant of the isle of Kaftor.
Are you not like the children of the Kushim to me, children of Yisra'el?* says the LORD. *Haven't I brought up Yisra'el out of the land of Egypt, and the Pelishtim from Kaftor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Ashkelon will see it, and fear; `Aza also, and will writhe in agony; as will `Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and the king will perish from `Aza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
from the Shichor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of `Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Kena`anim; the five lords of the Pelishtim; the `Azati, and the Ashdodi, the Eshkeloni, the Gitti, and the `Ekroni; also the `Avvim,