* Also Judah.
There is the following remarkable variation here in the
Septuagint: [Kai ouk ekl(8272)onom(8273)en Ioudas t(826e) Gazan, oude ta
horia aut(8273); oude t(826e) Askal▋a, oude ta horia aut(8273); kai t(826e)
Akkar▋, oude ta horia aut(8273); t(826e) Az┤on, oude ta perisporia
aut(8273).] "But Judah did not possess Gaza, nor the coasts
thereof; nor Askelon, nor the coasts thereof; nor Ekron, nor
the coasts thereof; nor Ashdod, nor the coasts thereof."
Procopius and Augustine read the same; and Josephus (Ant. 1.
v. c. 2) says that the Israelites only took Askelon and
Ashdod, but not Gaza or Ekron; and from ch. 3:3, and the whole
succeeding history, it appears that these cities were not in
the possession of the Israelites, but of the Philistines.
* Gaza.
# 3:3; 16:1,2,21; Ex 23:31|
* See on
# Jos 11:22; 13:3; 15:45-47; 1Sa 6:17|
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