The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth–she´mesh, and Aj´alon, and Ged´eroth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; El´iphaz the Te´manite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Na´amathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him, and to comfort him.
And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth–ho´ron, and smote them to Aze´kah, and unto Makke´dah.
And that day Joshua took Makke´dah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makke´dah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
and turneth toward the sunrising to Beth–da´gon, and reacheth to Zeb´ulun, and to the valley of Jiph´thah–el toward the north side of Beth–e´mek, and Nei´el, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,