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  1. Jan 2023
    1. Ekron was destroyed in603 BCE by the Babylonians.
    2. during Iron Age I, in the 12th–11thcenturies BCE, Ekron, which is located very near the Sorek Valley, was thedominant Philistine center, and the biblical tradition accordingly places thenarrative concerning the Philistines in that valley.