And he went forth, and warred against the Philistines,.... Who in the times of Jehoram broke in upon Judah, and distressed them, 2Ch 21:16and brake down the wall of Gath; which was one of the five principalities of the Philistines:and the wall of Jabneh; nowhere else mentioned in Scripture, but frequent in the Jewish writings; where the sanhedrim sometimes sat, and where was a famous university, and from whence sprung many of the Jewish rabbins; it is the same which in some writers is called Jamnia, and was a port near to Joppa; and belonged to the tribe of Dan, as Josephus writes:and the wall of Ashdod: another of the principalities of the Philistines, the same with the Azotus of the New Testament; he dismantled all these places:and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines; where he placed garrisons to keep them in awe; see Am 1:8.
Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect.