Zechariah 9:5
Ashkelon will see and be afraid. Both Gaza and he will be very sorrowful, as well as Ekron, because her hope has been confounded. And the king will pass away from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
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In Context
6And the divider will sit in Ashdod, and I will scatter the arrogance of the Philistines.
Cross References
Isaiah 14:28In the year in which king Ahaz died, this burden was given:
Isaiah 20:5And they will be afraid and confounded over Ethiopia, their hope, and Egypt, their glory.
Jeremiah 47:4because of the arrival of the day on which all the Philistines will be devastated, and Tyre and Sidon will be destroyed, with all the rest of their helpers. For the Lord has depopulated the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Cappadocia.
Jeremiah 51:8Suddenly, Babylon has fallen and been crushed. Wail over her! Take a balm to her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.”
Ezekiel 26:15Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: “Will not the islands shake at the sound of your ruin and at the groans of your slain, when they will have been cut down in your midst?
Zephaniah 2:4For Gaza will be destroyed, and Ashkelon will be in the desert; they will expel Ashdod at midday, and Ekron will be eradicated.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 9:2-9
Prophecy against Syria; Prophecy against the Enemies of Israel; Judgments and Mercies. ( b. c. 510.) 1 The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord . 2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. 3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. 4 Behold, the Lord will cast her… Read the whole commentary →