Joshua 15:45

45 Ekron and its dependent villages and its hamlets.

Joshua 15:45 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 15:45

Ekron, with her towns and her villages.
] One of the five principalities of the Philistines, which with two more next mentioned, though they fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah, were never possessed by them; for which reason perhaps Gath and Ascalon are not mentioned, and these are put for the rest; see ( Joshua 13:3 ) .

Joshua 15:45 In-Context

43 and Jiphthah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,

44 and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities and their hamlets.

45 Ekron and its dependent villages and its hamlets.

46 From Ekron and westward all that are by the side of Ashdod, and their hamlets.

47 Ashdod, its dependent villages and its hamlets; Gazah, its dependent villages and its hamlets, as far as the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea and [its] coast.

Footnotes

• [a]. See ch. 13.23.
• [b]. Lit. 'daughters:' see ch. 17.11.