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P. L. 1. 466; Samson 981. Ekron (Vulgate, Accaron) was the most northern of the five cities of the Philistines (1 Samuel 6. 17), about twenty -five miles west of Jerusalem. As was usual in the time of Milton, Fuller Beelzebub is the god espe(P. 202.) places it on the coast. cially a igned to Ekron by the Bible (2 Kings 1. 1-6), as Milton doubtle remembered when he wrote that Beelzebub was “long Accaron (Ecron). after known in Palestine.” 22