And Elon,.... Of Elon no mention is made elsewhere:
and Thimnathah is a different place from Timnah in the tribe of Judah,
Jos 15:10
. Jerom (s) speaks of the Thamnitic country, so called from the village Thamna, which seems to be this:
and Ekron was one of the five principalities of the Philistines, and never possessed by the Israelites; it first fell by lot to the tribe of Judah, and afterwards given to the tribe of Dan,
Jos 15:45
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(s) De loc. Heb. fol. 88. E.
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