Albert Barnes Commentary Joshua 11:8

"And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they smote them, and chased them unto great Sidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining." — Joshua 11:8 (ASV)

One portion of the defeated host fled northwestward toward Zidon; the other northeastward up the Ard el Huleh.

Zidon, as the metropolis of various subject towns and territories, appears (Joshua 19:28) to have been afterward assigned to Asher, but was not, in fact, conquered by that tribe (Judges 1:31). It is mentioned in Egyptian papyri of great antiquity, and by Homer, and was in the most ancient times the capital of Phoenicia. In later times it was eclipsed by Tyre (Compare to 2 Samuel 5:11). The prophets frequently couple Tyre and Sidon together, as does also the New Testament (Isaiah 23:2, 4, 12; Jeremiah 27:3; Jeremiah 47:4; Matthew 11:22; Matthew 15:21, and so on).

Both the site and meaning of Misrephoth-maim are uncertain. Some have thought it identical with Zarephath which belongeth to Zidon (1 Kings 17:9), the Sarepta of the New Testament. The name is explained by some (see the margin) as meaning hot springs; by others as salt pits, that is, pits where the seawater was evaporated for the sake of its salt; and again by others as “smelting factories near the waters.” Some, tracing the word to quite another root, render it “heights of waters,” or copious springs.