The Holy Land and the Bible; . they do their Palestine fel-low-countrymen ; why, who can accurately tell ? Ashdod wasone of the towns inhabited by the remnant of the gigan-tic Anakim, in the days of Joshua,^ and gloried in a great temple ofDagon, whose worship had here its head-quarters. This god, half manand half fish,^ was the national god of the Philistines ; Derketo, a coun-terpart of Astarte,^ or Ashtaroth, being his female complement, withAscalon for her chief seat. Dagon, however, was a purely Assyrio-Babylonian deity; the Nineveh marbles showing both the name andthe fish-man, as descri
The Holy Land and the Bible; . they do their Palestine fel-low-countrymen ; why, who can accurately tell ? Ashdod wasone of the towns inhabited by the remnant of the gigan-tic Anakim, in the days of Joshua,^ and gloried in a great temple ofDagon, whose worship had here its head-quarters. This god, half manand half fish,^ was the national god of the Philistines ; Derketo, a coun-terpart of Astarte,^ or Ashtaroth, being his female complement, withAscalon for her chief seat. Dagon, however, was a purely Assyrio-Babylonian deity; the Nineveh marbles showing both the name andthe fish-man, as described in the Book of Samuel. This union of thehuman figure and that of a fish apparently arose from the natural asso-1 Josh. xi. 22. 2 1 Sam. v. 4; see margin. 3 1 Sam. xxxi. 10. I went by the field of the slotli-fiil. and liy tlie vinevtaid of theMian void (^f understanding : And. lo, it was all fj;rown overw i t li thorns, and nettles hadcovered the face thereof, and thestone wall thereof was brokendown.—Pro%\ xxiv. 30, Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein.—Paa. xcvi. 12. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty ofbrefid.—Pror. xxviii, 19. He that plougheth should ploitgh in hope.—1 Cor. ix. 10. FELLAH PLOUGHING IX THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF TELL-ES-SAFJEH. (See page 73.) VJI.] ASHDOl) . 85 ciatioii, ill a nuiritime pojiulatioii, of the Idea of (ecuiKlity with thetiniiv tribes; Dagon being a Kymbol o[ the re})roductive power ofnature, ami liaving been originally \vorshi))])e(l on the shores of thePersian Gulf, from which, through (Jhnldaa, the Ihilistines receivedthe cultus, apparently from the l^hoenicians, who caine from the Per-sian Gulf by way of Babylonia. Ashdod was assigned to the tribe , but it never came intotheir possession, and even so late as the time of Neheniiah it wasranked among the cities hostile to Joying on the great mili-tary road between Syria and Kgy])t, it was an ini])ortant strategicalpost from the earliest t
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