Joshua 19:25
And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
And their border was Helkath,.... Helkath seems to be the same with Hukok, 1 Chronicles 6:75; and according to Masius it lay ten or twelve miles above Ptolemais;
and Hali, of which we read nowhere else.
and Beten is by Jerom {h} called Bathne, and was in his time a village by the name of Bethebem, eight miles from Ptolemais to the east. Reland {i} seems to think it might be the Ecbatana of Pliny {k}, which he speaks of as near Mount Carmel, and not far from Ptolemais;
and Achshaph was a royal city, whose king was taken by Joshua,
See Gill on "Joshua 11:1".
{h} De loc. Heb. fol. 89. H.
{i} Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 617.
{k} Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 19.
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