The southernmost of the five great Philistine cities (the Pentapolis), on the Mediterranean coast about forty miles southwest of Jerusalem. Gaza features in major OT narratives, most famously as the city where Samson tore off the gates and carried them to the top of a hill outside Hebron (Judg 16:1-3), and where after his betrayal by Delilah he was bound, blinded, and brought down to grind grain like an animal (Judg 16:21). His final act — pushing the temple pillars apart and bringing the building down on himself and the assembled Philistine lords — killed more in his death than he had killed in his life (Judg 16:30). The prophets pronounce judgment against Gaza (Amos 1:6-8; Jer 25:20; 47:1-5; Zeph 2:4; Zech 9:5). The Ethiopian eunuch was traveling the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert (Acts 8:26) when Philip met him and explained the suffering-Servant passage from Isaiah 53. Gaza is still inhabited; the modern city of the same name occupies the same coastal strip.