[And] in the valley,.... In Joshua 15:33 are enumerated the several cities belonging to the tribe of Judah which lay in the valley. Jerom f says, that now all the plain and champaign country near Eleutheropolis, which verges to the north and west, is called "Sephela", or the valley:
Eshtaol; the two first of these seem to be given afterwards to the tribe of Dan, Joshua 19:41; between these two places Samson was born and buried, Judges 13:2; they were both at the same distance from Eleutheropolis, according to Jerom; of Eshtaol he says g, it is showed to this day ten miles from Eleutheropolis, to the north, as you go to Nicopolis or Emmaus;
and Zoreah, of which he calls Saara, he says h it is a village on the borders of Eleutheropolis, as you go to Nicopolis, about ten miles of it in the tribe of Dan or Judah;
and Ashnah, of which no mention is made elsewhere; there was another place of the same name, but different from this, Joshua 15:43.
f De. loc. Heb. fol. 94. M. g Ibid. fol. 91. C. h lbid. fol. 94. I.