Treasury of Scripture
Asher
Joshua 19:24-30 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families...
Accho, the Ptolemais of the Greeks and Romans, and called Saint John of Acre by the Crusaders, is situated of the Mediterranean, in a fine plain, at the north angle of a bay to which it gives name, and which extends in a semicircle of three leagues as far as Carmel, and nine leagues from Tyre. Zidon. Another celebrated city of Phoenicia, now Saide, situated in a fine country on the Mediterranean,
400 stadia from Berytus, and
200 north from Tyre, according to Strabo, one day's journey from Paneas, according to Josephus, and sixty-six miles from Damascus, according to Abulfeda. Achzib. or, Ecdippa, now Zib, nine miles north, from Accho.