And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
Dan brought up the rear in the wilderness, yet Providence set him last in Canaan, on a dangerous frontier against the Philistines. It was a post fit for his strength, and Samson proved it so. He won some cities by lot and others by his own valour and industry.
AI summary
Commenting on Joshua 19:40-48
And Eltekeh,.... Eltekeh was a city given to the Levites, Jos 21:23; and supposed by some to be the same with Eltekon in the tribe of Judah given to the Danites, Jos 15:59, and Gibbethon was in the hands of the Philistines in the reign of Asa, Kg1 15:21; and in the same place Jerom (t) calls Gabatha a city of the strangers, or Philistines...
OF DAN. (Jos 19:40-48) the seventh lot came out for the tribe . . . Dan--It lay on the west of Benjamin and consisted of portions surrendered by Judah and Ephraim. Its boundaries are not stated, as they were easily distinguishable from the relative position of Dan to the three adjoining tribes.
Commenting on Joshua 19:40-48