Ahaziah’s sending messengers to Ekron to enquire of the god Baal-zebub21 whether he would live or die, for which he is condemned by the prophet Elijah (2 Kings 1:2–3, 6). This association of the Philistines with the oracular arts may also be reflected in Isaiah 2:5–6. In addition, the Philistines appear in prophetic oracles against the foreign nations, in which the prediction of woe for Judah’s enemies presages Judah’s weal. Jeremiah 47 focuses its attention on the two southern coastal Philistine