and all the cities and towns near Ashdod, from Ekron to the Mediterranean Sea.

There were Ashdod and Gaza, with their towns and villages, reaching to the stream on the border of Egypt and the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

After the Philistines captured the Covenant Box, they carried it from Ebenezer to their city of Ashdod,

People of mixed race will live in Ashdod. The LORD says, "I will humble all these proud Philistines.

After this the Lord chose another seventy-two men and sent them out two by two, to go ahead of him to every town and place where he himself was about to go.

He said to them, "There is a large harvest, but few workers to gather it in. Pray to the owner of the harvest that he will send out workers to gather in his harvest.

by the power of miracles and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. And so, in traveling all the way from Jerusalem to Illyricum, I have proclaimed fully the Good News about Christ.

There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, who was a captain in the Roman army regiment called "The Italian Regiment."

On the following day we left and arrived in Caesarea. There we stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven men who had been chosen as helpers in Jerusalem.

Then the commander called two of his officers and said, "Get two hundred soldiers ready to go to Caesarea, together with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, and be ready to leave by nine o'clock tonight.

They took him to Caesarea, delivered the letter to the governor, and turned Paul over to him.

Festus answered, "Paul is being kept a prisoner in Caesarea, and I myself will be going back there soon.