Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

Philistines

Beth-shemesh

Gederoth

Bible References

Philistines

Ezekiel 16:27
And behold, I stretched forth my hand upon thee, and I will take away thy law, and I will give thee to the soul of those hating thee, the daughters of the rovers, being ashamed of thy way of wickedness.

Beth-shemesh

Joshua 15:10
And the bound encompassed from Baalah to the sea to mount Seir, and passed over to the shoulder of Jearim from the north (this is Chesalon) and it went down to the House of the Sun, and passed over to Timnah:
1 Samuel 6:9
And see if it shall go up the way of its bound to the House of the Sun, it did to us this great evil: and if not we shall know that not his hand struck upon us; it was a chance to us.

Gederoth

Joshua 15:41
And Gederoth, the House of Dagon, and Naamath and Makedah; sixteen cities and their enclosures: