Place
Gaza
Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.
The southernmost Philistine city, on the coast road to Egypt. Samson carried off its city gate, and later died here in the temple of Dagon.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Samson, Judges 16:1
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
- Samson, Judges 16:23
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).