And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Yhudah's wife died; and Yhudah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Plishtim shall perish, saith YY Elohim.
Therefore they sent the ark of Elohim to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of Elohim came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the Elohim of Yisrael to us, to slay us and our people.
But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Yosef prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
