(41-46) All the towns mentioned here are identified by Conder.
Zorah — Sur’ah
Eshtaol — Eshû’a
Ir-shemesh — Ain Sheme Shaalabbin — Selbît
Ajalon — Yâlo
Jethlah — (Ruin) Beit Tul
}
Are all in sheet 17
Elon — Beit Ello
Thimnathah — (Ruin) Tibneh
}
Sheet 14
Ekron-(akir, sheet 16)
{
Gibbethon-(Kibbiah, sheet 14)
Baalath — (Belaîn, sheet 14)
Jehud — El-Yehudîyeh
Bene-berak — Ibn Ibrak
}
Sheet 13
For Gath-rimmon, Conder suggests Gath; but this he identifies with Tell-es-Safi, which is well within the territory of Judah (to the south of sheet 16).
Me-jarkon, “the yellow water,” is thought to be the river ’Aujeh (sheet 13), and Rakkon, Tell-er-Rakkeit, to the north of the mouth of it. Japho is Jaffa, on the same sheet.