Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 13:3

3 From Sihor , which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite : five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, also the Avites .

A River, of which see Isa. 23. 3. and Ier. 2. 18.

i. e. Which, though now possess'd by the Philistines, who drove out the Canaanites the old Inhabitants of it, Deut. 2. 23. Amos 9. 7. yet is a part of the Land of Canaan, and therefore belongs to the Israelites.

Or, the Avims, as they are called, Deut. 2. 23. who though they were expelled out of their ancient Seat, and most of them destroyed by the Caphtor[illegible: 1+ letters]ns or Philistines, as is there said; yet many of them probably escaped, and planted themselves in some other place not very far from the former.

Marginal references: Zech. 9. 5.; Deut. 2. 13.