Gederoth

Gederoth ("walls" or "sheepfolds") was a Judean lowland town in the Shephelah (Joshua 15:41). It appears in 2 Chronicles 28:18 as one of six Shephelah and Negev cities the Philistines captured from King Ahaz during the Syro-Ephraimite war crisis — along with Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo. Ahaz had stripped Judah's defenses to bribe Tiglath-pileser of Assyria into rescuing Jerusalem from Pekah of Israel and Rezin of Syria. The cluster of similarly named villages (Geder, Gedor, Gederah, Gederoth, Gederothaim) suggests a broader region of stone-walled lowland farmsteads.