John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 26:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he went forth, and warred against the Philistines, etc.] Who in the times of Jehoram broke in upon Judah, and distressed them, (<142116>2 Chronicles 21:16,17) and brake down the wall of Gath; which was one of the five principalities of the Philistines: and the wall of Jabneh; nowhere else mentioned in Scripture, but frequent in the Jewish writings; where the sanhedrim sometimes sat, and where was a famous university, and from whence sprung many of the Jewish rabbins; it is the same which in some writers is called Jamnia, and was a port near to Joppa; and belonged to the tribe of Dan, as Josephus f98 writes: and the wall of Ashdod: another of the principalities of the Philistines, the same with the Azotus of the New Testament; he dismantled all these places: and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines; where he placed garrisons to keep them in awe; (see Amos 1:8).

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