Shikkeron

Shikkeron appears once in Scripture as a boundary marker on the northern frontier of Judah's tribal allotment: "And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea" (Joshua 15:11). The town lay in the western Shephelah-coast borderland between Ekron (one of the five Philistine pentapolis cities) and Jabneel near the Mediterranean. The site is commonly identified with Tell el-Ful or Khirbet el-Ferweh near modern Ashdod, controlling one of the strategic routes from the Judean highlands down to the Philistine coastal plain.