* fled.
27:1 1Ki 19:3 Jer 26:21
* Achish. or, Abimelech.
27:2 Ps 34:1 *title
* Gath.
Jerome says there was a large town called Gath, in the way
from Eleutheropolis to Gaza; and Eusebius speaks of another
Gath, five miles from Eleutheropolis, towards Lydda, (and
consequently different from that mentioned by Jerome;) and
also of another Gath, between Jamnia and Antipatris. It
appears to have been the extreme boundary of the Philistine
territory in one direction, as Ekron was on the other, (ch.
7:14; 17:52,) and lay near Mareshah, (2; Ch 11:8. Mic 1:14,)
which agrees pretty well with the position assigned it by
Jerome. But Reland and Dr. Wells agree with Eusebius; and the
authors of the Universal History (b. i. c. 7) place it about
six miles form Jamnia, fourteen south of Joppa, and thirty-two
west of Jerusalem.
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