Joshua 19:25

“And their border was Helkath, etc.] Helkath seems to be the same with Hukok, (<130675>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 f456 called Bathne, and was in his time a village by the name of Bethebem, eight miles from Ptolemais to the east. Reland f457 seems to think it might be the Ecbatana of Pliny f458, 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 “<061101>Joshua 11:1”).”

“Helkath, a Levitical town Joshua 21:31, is probably Yerka, a village about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, in a Wady of the same name. Alammelech was in the “Wady Melik,” which joins the Kishon from the northeast, not far from the sea. Shihor-libnath - i. e. “black-white.” The two words are now generally admitted to be the name of a river, probably the modern “Nahr Zerka,” or Blue River, which reaches the sea about 8 miles south of Dor, and whose name has a correspondence both to black and white. Possibly we have in the occurrence of the term Shihor here a trace of the contact, which was close and continuous in ancient times, between Phoenicia and Egypt Joshua 13:3. Cabul Joshua…”

“Helkath: Sa2 2:16 Beten: Probably the same as Bebeten or Batnai, mentioned by Eusebius, eight miles east from Ptolemais; and perhaps the Ecbatana which Pliny places not far from Ptolemais. Achshaph: Jos 11:1, Jos 12:20 Joshua 19:26”