Joshua 15:46-47

15:46 from Ekron westward, all those in the vicinity of Ashdod and their towns; 15:47 Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt ¹  and the border at the Mediterranean Sea. ² 

Joshua 15:1

15:1 The land allotted to the tribe of Judah by its clans reached to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin in the Negev far to the south. ³ 

Joshua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ⁴  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ⁵ 

Zechariah 9:6

9:6 A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.

[15:47]  ¹ tn See the note on this place name in 15:4.

[15:47]  ² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

[15:1]  ³ tn Heb “The lot was to the tribe of the sons of Judah by their clans to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin toward the south, southward.”

[5:1]  ⁴ tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”