Gath
Gath 1 · settlement
Possible locations
- Tell es Safi85% confidenceView on map
- Tel Nagila4% confidenceView on map
- Tell esh Sharia4% confidenceView on map
- Ras Abu Hamid1% confidenceView on map
- Tel Haror-1% confidenceView on map
- Tel Erani-13% confidenceView on map
Unearthed
Gath: a Philistine capital and its siegeConfirmed by the ground9th century BC
Gath was a very large Philistine city, and it was besieged and destroyed in the ninth century — the period and the event 2 Kings reports.