And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
The valley of the giants - better rendered as a local proper name, "the valley of Rephaim" (2 Samuel 5:18; 2 Samuel 5:22; 2 Samuel 23:13; Isaiah 17:5). From the top х meero'sh (H7218), the head or end] of the hill it extended along the bottom of the valley of Jehoshaphat to the water of Nephtoah, supposed by Robinson ('Biblical Researches,' vol. 1:, p.
493) to be the fountain now called Yalo, in Wady el-Werd (valley of roses: four miles southwest of Jerusalem); but it is generally identified, as a position more conformable with Joshua's description, with Ain-Lifta, or Lifteh, 'not far from the head of the valley that runs into Wady beit-Hanina, about two and a half miles northwest of Jerusalem' (Barclay's 'City of the Great King,' p. 545); and thence to Baalah (Baale, 2 Samuel 6:2; or Kirjath-baal, Joshua 18:14, the ancient name given by the Canaanite or Gibeonite (Joshua 9:17) idolaters), which is Kirjath-jearim (or Kirjath-arim (city of woods), identified with the modern Kuryet el-Enab (city of grapes), nine miles from Jerusalem on the road to [Diospolis] Lydda, now Ludd).
[Eusebius, peri toon topikoon.] Proceeding further westward, it came to Mount Seir horos Assar, which was, in the opinion of Dr. Robinson ('Physical Geography of the Holy Land,' p. 42), the ridge between the Wady Aly and the Wady Ghural; thence passed unto the side х 'el (H413) ketep (H3802), by the shoulder] of Mount Jearim, which is Chesalon-a large village or town, so called probably from being situated on the loins of mount Jearim, identified by Robinson with the present village of Kesla, six miles to the northeast of Ain-Shems, Beth-shemesh. From Beth-shemesh it went to Timnah, or Thimnathah (Joshua 19:43), now Tibneh. The north border then went out unto the side (literally, shoulder) of Ekron [Septuagint, Akkaroon], now Akir х kaatap (H3802) is used here, in a geographical sense, to denote the rising ground or elevation of a country along a seacoast], and to Shicron [Septuagint, Sokchooth] (its site has not been ascertained); thence it passed along to mount Baalah and to Jabneel, now Jabneh, or Jebna, the extreme northwest frontier point of the allotted inheritance of Judah. The Mediterranean formed the boundary on the west, called the "great sea" (Joshua 1:4; Joshua 9:1; Numbers 34:6; Ezekiel 47:20).