Joshua 15:45

45 `Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

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 Yiftach, and Ashnah, and Netziv,

44 and Ke`ilah, and Akhziv, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

45 `Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

46 from `Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; `Aza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Mitzrayim, and the great sea, and the border [of it].