MAKAZ.A town on the W. slopes of Judah (1Ki_4:9). The LXX [Note: Septuagint.] reading, Michmash, is impossible. The site has not been recovered.
W. Ewing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A town under Solomon's commissariat officer, Ben ("son of"), Dekar (1Ki_4:9).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ma'kaz. (end). A place, apparently a town, named once only ? 1Ki_4:9 ? in the specification of the jurisdiction of Solomon, a commissariat officer, Ben-Dekar. Makaz has not been discovered.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mā?kaz (מקץ, māḳac): One of the cities of the 2nd of the 12 districts or prefectures which supplied victuals for Solomon (1Ki_4:9). It is associated with Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh and Elon-beth-hanan, all three probably identical with cities mentioned (Jos_19:41, Jos_19:42) as on the border of Dan. Cheyne (EB, II, col. 2906) suggests that Makaz may bc identical with ME-JARKON (which see) in the latter list.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Makaz
(Heb. Ma'kats, מָקִוֹ, boundary; Septuag. Μακές v. r. Μαχυᾶς), a place first named among those designating the district of Ben-Dekar, one of Solomon's purveyors (1Ki_4:9). The associated names, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan, would seem to indicate a locality in the tribe of Dan, perhaps in the plain east of Ekron.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.