The Philistines couldn’t get it. And neither, it seems do our modern day Philistines – despite the fact that generations before them will have been brought up on Biblical stories like this.

and King Hezekiah’s successful battles in which the Philistines were significantly defeated. Similarly, the warriors of modern day Israel have a long and intense history of conflict with Hamas ...

The Philistines have been described as probably the biggest villains of the Hebrew Bible. Likely originating in Crete, they arrived in Canaan—modern-day Southern Levant—in the 12th century BCE ...