John Gill Commentary Joshua 19:25

"And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph," — Joshua 19:25 (ASV)

And their border was Helkath
Helkath seems to be the same with Hukok, (1 Chronicles 6:75); and according to Masius it lay ten or twelve miles above Ptolemais;

and Hali,
of which we read nowhere else.

and Beten
is by Jerom ^F8 called Bathne, and was in his time a village by the name of Bethebem, eight miles from Ptolemais to the east. Reland seems to think it might be the Ecbatana of Pliny ^F11, which he speaks of as near Mount Carmel, and not far from Ptolemais;

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and Achshaph
was a royal city, whose king was taken by Joshua, (See Gill on Joshua 11:1).

FOOTNOTES:

• F8: De loc. Heb. fol. 89. H.
• F11: Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 19.
• F9: Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 617.