Jerom says, that now all the plain and champaign country near Eleutheropolis, which verges to the north and west, is called “Sephela”, or the valley: Eshtaol ; the two first of these seem to be given afterwards to the tribe of Dan, ( Joshua 19:41); between these two places Samson was born and buried, ( Judges 13:2,25 16:31); they were both at the same distance from Eleutheropolis, according to Jerom; of Eshtaol he says f336 , it is showed to this day ten miles from Eleutheropolis, to the north, as you go to Nicopolis or Emmaus; and Zoreah , of which he calls Saara, he says it is a village on the borders of Eleutheropolis, as you go to Nicopolis, about ten miles of it in the tribe of Dan or Judah; and Ashnah , of which no mention is made elsewhere; there was another place of the same name, but different from this, ( Joshua 15:43).

Matthew Henry Commentary

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