And Keilah,.... The first of these is a well known city, which David saved from the hands of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 23:1, c. In Jerom's time it was a little village to the east of Eleutheropolis, about eight miles from it, as you go to Hebron in which was shown the sepulchre of the Prophet Habakkuk b.
And Achzib is said to be on the borders of Asher, Joshua 19:29, and is supposed the same with Chezib, Genesis 38:5; and the Ecdippa of Josephus and others, and now called Zib; Micah 1:14;
and Mareshah; Jerom says c, only the ruins of it were to be seen two miles from Eleutheropolis:
nine cities with their villages; which is just their number.
b De loc. Heb. fol. 90. A. c lbid. fol. 93. E.