OF PART THE SECOND. xy 
from Hdrouy and between Hebron and Gaza\ 
Afterwards, in the book of Joshua^, where men- 
tion is made of the five cities of Palcesdne, or 
of the Philistines, the following are enume- 
rated : Gaza, AzoiiLS, Ascalon, Geth or Gath, and 
Accaron : all of these were comprehended within 
that district which has Joppa to the north, and 
Gaza to the south\ Of the most antient Hea- 
then writers, Herodotus expressly states that 
country to have been called Palestine which 
extended from the boundaries of Egypt to those 
oi Ph(£7iice^. Thus, having summed all the evi- 
dence which can be adduced upon this point, 
it may be manifest, that the use of the term 
Paleestine, as applied to all that country origi- 
nally called the Land of the Israelites, is a 
(5) Gerar, or Gerara, is also mentioned in Genesis \. 15. but its 
situation is precisely stated in Geiiesis \%.\. where j4ljruha)n, having 
"journeyed towards the south country," is said to have " sojourned 
in Gerar, between Kadesh and Shur." It formed with Gaza the 
southern frontier of Palastine. The Desert of Chdes belong-ed to Egypt; 
that of Sur to Arabia Pctraa, 
(6) t/oi/j. xiii. 3. In 1 Satnuel, \i. 17. they are thus enumerated: 
jizotus, Gaza, Ascalon, Gath, Accaron. See also Josephus, lib. vi. 
Antiq. c. 1. 
(") The boundaries of PhiUstaa, or Palastine, are thus defined by 
Joshia, xiii. 3. "From Sifior, (the river; See Jeremiah ii. 18.) which 
is before Egypt, e\en unto the borders of Ekron (Accaron) northward." 
(8) Heiodot. in Polyhymn. That is to say, from Egypt to Joppa. 
The Avhole country was maritime. " Situs regionis Philistaa est ma- 
ritimus, ab Joppe ad Mgypti fines." Cellar, lib. iii. cap. 13. torn. II. 
/. 595. Lips. 1706. 
