Holy Land Pilgrimage: Journey to Galilee (Part 2)
From the Valley of Elah, we reached the coast and turned north at Ashdod which historically was one of the five capital cities of the Philistine Pentapolis of David’s day. The Philistines were a seafaring people. They swept southward from the Aegean, ravaging Anatolia, Cyprus and pushing at Egypt on their route to settle along the south coast of Israel. They became one of Israel’s chief adversaries throughout the period of her Kings…