Ṣidqa (

Philistine The Philistines ( he, פְּלִשְׁתִּים, Pəlīštīm; Koine Greek (LXX): Φυλιστιείμ, romanized: ''Phulistieím'') were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan from the 12th century BC until 604 BC, when ...

: 𐤑𐤃𐤒𐤀 *''Ṣīdqāʾ''; Akkadian: ) was a king of Ashkelon in the 8th century BC. He, much like Hezekiah, king of the neighboring Kingdom of Judah, rebelled against the Assyrian king Sennacherib. Sennacherib eventually put the rebellion down, and by 701 BC had destroyed the cities of

Beth-Dagon Beth Dagon or Dagan (בית-דגון or בית-דגן) is the name of two biblical cities in Israel. * A city (Joshua 15:41) in the territory of the tribe of Judah "in the plains", that is, the territory below Jaffa between the Judean hills and the ...

, Joppa,

Banai-Barqa Benebarak ("Sons of Barak") ( he, בְּנֵי בְּרַק, ''Bnei Brak'') was a biblical city mentioned in the Book of Joshua. According to the biblical account it was allocated to the Tribe of Dan. Its archaeological site is . In the Talmudic ...

, and

Azjuru Azor ( he, אָזוֹר, ar, أزور) (also ''Azur'') is a small town ( local council) in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, on the old Jaffa-Jerusalem road southeast of Tel Aviv. Established in 1948 on the site of the depopulated Palestinian v ...

. Sidqa was forced to pay tribute following his defeat. After the revolt, Sennacherib placed '' Šarru-lu-dari'', the son of Sidqa's predecessor, ''

Rukibtu Rukibtu ( akk, 𒊒𒌑𒄒𒌅 𒌉 ''ru-ú-kib-tu'') or Rukibti ( akk, 𒊒𒄒𒋾 ''ru-kib-ti'')
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'', on the throne of Ashkelon. Despite this, ''Šarru-lu-dari'' was apparently succeeded by Sidqa's son,

Mitinti Mitinti (Philistine: 𐤌𐤕𐤕NAVEH, JOSEPH. “Writing and Scripts in Seventh-Century B.C.E. Philistia: The New Evidence from Tell Jemmeh.” Israel Exploration Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, Israel Exploration Society, 1985, pp. 8–21, http://www.j ...

.NAVEH, JOSEPH. “Writing and Scripts in Seventh-Century B.C.E. Philistia: The New Evidence from Tell Jemmeh.” Israel Exploration Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, Israel Exploration Society, 1985, pp. 8–21, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27925967.

References

Philistine kings Philistines 8th-century BC rulers Ashkelon {{royal-stub