Zephaniah 2:5
Woe unto the inhabitants of kthe sea coast, the nation of the lCherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
k:
Jeremiah 47:7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
l:
Ezekiel 25:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
1 Samuel 30:14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
now all the Philistines are threatened, whereas before he named only those four cities.
the coasts of the great or western sea, now the Mediterranean, on which the Philistines of old did dwell.
or destroyers, men that were stout, but fierce, and perhaps terrible to neighbours and foreigners that had the hard hap to be forced on their coasts by violence of sea. They were great soldiers, and lived Switzerlike, guards to David, it may be to other kings also.
his purpose, his threats too by his prophet.
that part that the Philistines did by three keep from the Jews.
though the Chaldeans be the men that shall destroy, yet the Lord will do it also; they his servants, he chief, in doing it.
no more cities, nor citizens to dwell therein.