. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . he high-road from Palestine to Egypt, andwas besieged by Tartan about b. c. 716, apparentlyto frustrate Hezekiahs league with Egypt (Is. xx. l).The effects of its siege of twenty-nine years byPsammetichus (b. c. 630) are incidentally referred toin Jer. xxv. 20. It apparently recovered from thisblow, and was allied with the Arabians, &c. againstJerusalem (Neh. iv. 7). It was destroyed by theMaccabees (1 Mc. v. 68, x. 84), and lay in ruins untilthe Roman conquest of Judea, when it was restoredby Gabinius (b. c. 55). The only notice of it in theN. T. is
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . he high-road from Palestine to Egypt, andwas besieged by Tartan about b. c. 716, apparentlyto frustrate Hezekiahs league with Egypt (Is. xx. l).The effects of its siege of twenty-nine years byPsammetichus (b. c. 630) are incidentally referred toin Jer. xxv. 20. It apparently recovered from thisblow, and was allied with the Arabians, &c. againstJerusalem (Neh. iv. 7). It was destroyed by theMaccabees (1 Mc. v. 68, x. 84), and lay in ruins untilthe Roman conquest of Judea, when it was restoredby Gabinius (b. c. 55). The only notice of it in theN. T. is in connection with Philips return irom Gaza(Acts viii. 40). It is now an insignificant villagecalled Esdud. (See cut on next page.) Ashdod-ites = the inhabitants of Ashdod ( 7); called Ashdothites in Josh. xiii. 3. Ashdoth Pisgall (Heb. outpourings of torrents [orravines] of Pisgah, Ges.); only in Deut. iii. 17 ; Josh,xii 3, xiii. 20 ; and in Deut. iv. 49, A. V. springsof Pisgah. In Deuteronomy the words form part of 72 ASH ASH. Ashdoil. a formula (A. V. under Ashdoth Pisgah eastward,eastward under the springs of Pisgah ), apparentlydefining the mountains which enclose the Dead Seaon the E. The same intention is evident in Josh,xii. 3 and xiii. 20; and in Josh. x. 40 and xii. 8,Ashdoth (A, V. the springs) is used alone todenote one of the main natural divisions of the coun-try. A kindred word (Heb. eshed, A. V. stream )is used in Num. xxi. 15, which also refers to the the Dead Sea. Ashdoth-ites (Josh. xiii. 3) = Ashdodites. Asher (Heb. happy, blessed, Ges.). 1. (In X. T. Aser). Eighth son of Jacob, by Zilpah,Leahs handmaid (Gen. xxx. 13). This passage isfull of paronomastic turns : And Leah said, Inmy happiness am I, for the daughters will call mehappy, and she called his name Asher (i. e. hap-py ). A similar play occurs in the blessing of Moses(Deut. xxxiii. 24).—Asher is in the lists of the tribesin Gen. xxxv., xlvi.; Ex. i.; Num. i., ii., xiii., &
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