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The Philistines were a non- Semitic people. At one time they were a sea going people and are said to have come from Caphtor (Amos 9:7; Jere. 47:4. They settled in the coastal strip in S.W. Palestine along the Mediterranean Sea. At Ramses III temple at Medinet Habu, the reliefs depicting the Philistines there show them as a tall hellenic- looking people.

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