John Gill Commentary Joshua 15:45

"Ekron, with its towns and its villages;" — Joshua 15:45 (ASV)

Ekron, with her towns and her villages .
] One of the five principalities of the Philistines, which with two more next mentioned, though they fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah, were never possessed by them; for which reason perhaps Gath and Ascalon are not mentioned, and these are put for the rest; see (Joshua 13:3) .