Verse 6
And he went forth, and warred against the Philistines ,.... Who in the times of Jehoram broke in upon Judah, and distressed them, 2 Chronicles 21:16 .
and brake down the wall of Gath ; which was one of the five principalities of the Philistines:
and the wall of Jabneh ; nowhere else mentioned in Scripture, but frequent in the Jewish writings; where the sanhedrim sometimes sat, and where was a famous university, and from whence sprung many of the Jewish rabbins; it is the same which in some writers is called Jamnia, and was a port near to Joppa; and belonged to the tribe of Dan, as Josephus F13 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 22. writes:
and the wall of Ashdod : another of the principalities of the Philistines, the same with the Azotus of the New Testament; he dismantled all these places:
and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines ; where he placed garrisons to keep them in awe; see Amos 1:8 .
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