Joshua 19:43

“And Elon, etc.] Of Elon no mention is made elsewhere; and Thimnathah is a different place from Timnah in the tribe of Judah, (<061510>Joshua 15:10,57). Jerom f490 speaks of the Thamnitic country, so called from the village Thamna, which seems to be this; and Ekron was one of the five principalities of the Philistines, and never possessed by the Israelites; it first fell by lot to the tribe of Judah, and afterwards given to the tribe of Dan, (<061545>Joshua 15:45).”

“19:43 About fifty years after Israel came into Canaan under Joshua, the Philistines moved into the southern coastal plain and occupied the cities of Timnah and Ekron (Judg 14:1-2; 1 Sam 5:1-10). The Philistines were among the Sea Peoples who had perhaps been driven out of the Greek mainland and the Greek islands by an invasion from the north. The Sea Peoples also invaded and destroyed the Hittite Empire to the north of Israel. (Some scholars think that Homer’s Iliad reflects this movement.)”

“Thimnathah: Gen 38:12; Jdg 14:1, Jdg 14:2, Timnath Ekron: Ekron is placed by Eusebius between Ashdod and Jamnia, eastward; and probably the ruined village of Tookrair, mentioned by Dr. Richarson, situated on the top of a hill, and which he says seems to have been a place of considerable consequence, occupies its site. Jos 15:45; Sa1 5:10; Amo 1:8 Joshua 19:44”