Joshua 15:11

unto the side of Ekron northward The boundary, still following a N.W. course, now tended towards a point lying near the Philistine city of Ekron (see above, ch. Joshua 13:3), whence it was drawn to Shicron, between Ekron and Jabneal (Yebna), and passed along to mount Baalah, "the short line of hills running almost parallel with the coast," and so "went out unto Jabneel" the modern village of Yebna or Ibna, about two miles from the Sea, 11 miles south of Jaffa, and four from Ækir(Ekron), represents the ancient Jabneel or Jabneh(2 Chronicles 26:6), or, in its Greek garb, Jamnia(1MMalachi 4:5; 1Ma 5:58).