¹⁸ while the Philistines^(A) had raided towns in the foothills and in the Negev of Judah. They captured and occupied Beth Shemesh, Aijalon^(B) and Gederoth,^(C) as well as Soko,^(D) Timnah^(E) and Gimzo, with their surrounding villages.

⁴ “Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon^(A) and all you regions of Philistia?^(B) Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.^{(C) 5} For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.^{[a](D) 6} You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,^(E) that you might send them far from their homeland.