He went up slowly in the early part of 331 by the traditional North Road through philistia and Palestine and round the head of the Syrian Hamad to Thapsacus on Euphrates, paying, on the way, a visit of precaution to Tyre, which had cost him so much toil and time a year before.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
It stirred up enough dust to change, though not to cleanse, the musty atmosphere of philistia.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
Sloping down from the Judean hills toward the plain of philistia and the Mediterranean Sea is the Shefelah, or Lowlands, a section of Palestine, far-famed for its stretches of rich farm lands, vineyards and olive groves.
"Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)"
Isaac Landman