And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
Ver. 8. Who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon.] The mother city of Phoenicia: yea, various fled to Africa and there settled, as is gathered by a pillar mentioned by Procopius with this inscription, We are Phoenicians flying from the face of Jesus the son of Nave; as also by the harmony of the Punic dialect with the Hebrew: witness Plautus's gibberish in "Paenulo," and various words in Augustine.
Misrephothmaim.] Or, Hot waters, where they boiled salt, or made glass, or bathed.