John Gill Commentary 2 Chronicles 26:6

"And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines." — 2 Chronicles 26:6 (ASV)

And he went forth, and warred against the Philistines
Who in the times of Jehoram broke in upon Judah, and distressed them, (2 Chronicles 21:16 2 Chronicles 21:17)

and broke 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 which 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 ^F13 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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FOOTNOTES:

• F13: Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 22.