from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
Five lords of the Philistines — These dynasties are famous in the Scriptures for their successful wars against the Israelites, of whom they were almost the perpetual scourge.