Endnote 3 – How Did the Philistines Enter Canaan? A Rejoinder

Propinquity in the location of the two battles is strongly suggested by both the pictorial and textual descriptions, such as the following passage: “Those who came forward together on the sea, the full flame was in front of them at the river-mouths, while a stockade of lances surrounded them on the shore” (Wilson, ANET, pp. 262–263).