And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
Keilah, [Septuagint, Keilam] - grouped with Nezib and Mareshah; but its site has not been fixed by modern explorers.
Achzib, х 'Akziyb (H392) (falsehood, a lie: cf. Micah 1:14). Septuagint, Kezib] - a town in the tribe of Judah, different from the place of the same name mentioned, Joshua 19:29.
Mareshah, [Septuagint, Batheesar] - i:e., on the top of a hill; supposed to be represented by the modern Marash, which lies south-southwest of Beit-Jibrin (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, pp. 422, 423). This is a separate group of nine cities, the sites of several of which have been discovered on the edges of the mountains.