Joshua - 15:45



45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 15:45.

Differing Translations

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Accaron with the towns and villages thereof.
Ekron and its dependent villages and its hamlets.
Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places;
Ecron, et oppida ejus et villae ejus.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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.

Ekron, i.e., Akir (see Joshua 13:3). "Her daughters" are the other towns of the principality of Ekron that were dependent upon the capital, and חצרים the villages and farms.

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