John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:46
From Ekron even unto the sea ,.... The Mediterranean sea, or the west, as the Targum: all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages ; this is the Azotus of the New Testament, Acts 8:40 , another of the principalities of the Philistines, of which and Ekron See Gill on Amos 1:8 and See Gill on Zephaniah 2:4 . read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 15:20-63
We have here a list of the several cities that fell within the lot of the tribe of Judah, which are mentioned by name, that they might know their own, and both keep it and keep to it, and might neither through cowardice nor sloth lose the possession of what was their own. I. The cities are here named, and numbered in several classes, which they then could account for the reason of better than we can now. Here are, 1. Some that are said to be the uttermost cities towards the coast of Edom,... read more