Zephaniah 2:5 BSB — MannaFest

Zephaniah 2:5

Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”

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ASV

Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The “woe” having been pronounced on the five cities apart, now falls upon the whole nation of the Cherethites or Philistines. The Cherethites are only named as equivalent to the Philistines, probably as originally a distinct immigration of the same people . The name is used by the Egyptian slave of the Amalekite 1Sa 30:14 for those whom the author of the first book of Samuel calls Philistines 1Sa 30:16. Ezekiel uses the name parallel with that of “Philistines,” with reference to the destruction which God would bring upon them .

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This land is yet to be possessed ( five lords of the Philistines ), so that they wrongfully kept Israel out of the possession of it ( Judg. iii. 3 ), which is now remembered against them. For, though the rights of others may be long detained unjustly, the righteous God will at length avenge the wrong.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Eze 25:16). the Cherethites--the Cretans, a name applied to the Philistines as sprung from Crete (De 2:23; Philistine means "an emigrant." Canaan . . . land of the Philistines--They occupied the southwest of Canaan (Jos 13:2, 3); a name which hints that they are doomed to the same destruction as the early occupants of the land.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ה֗וֹי	Ho	woe to!	H1945 →
יֹֽשְׁבֵ֛י	yo.she.Vei	[the] inhabitants of	H3427 →
חֶ֥בֶל	Che.vel	[the] region of	H2256 →
הַיָּ֖ם	hai.Yam	the sea	H3220 →
גּ֣וֹי	Goy	[the] nation of	H1471 →
כְּרֵתִ֑ים	ke.re.Tim	[the] Kerethites	H3774 →
דְּבַר־	de.var-	[the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
עֲלֵיכֶ֗ם	'a.lei.Khem	[is] on you	H5921 →
כְּנַ֙עַן֙	ke.Na.'an	O Canaan	H3667 →
אֶ֣רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] land of	H776 →
פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים	pe.lish.Tim	[the] Philistines	H6430 →
וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖יךְ	ve.ha.'a.vad.Tikh	and I will destroy you	H6 →
מֵאֵ֥ין	me.'Ein	from not	H369 →
יוֹשֵֽׁב׃	yo.Shev	inhabitant	H3427 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Amos 3:1
Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
leads to
- Amos 2:10
  And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
- Jeremiah 8:3
  And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Through
Ezekiel 25:16
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 30:14
  We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
- Zephaniah 2:4–15
  For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.
- Ezekiel 25:13
  therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman…
- Jeremiah 47:1–7
  This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.
Through
Mark 12:12
At this, the leaders sought to arrest Jesus, for they knew that He had spoken this parable against them. But fearing the crowd, they left Him and went away.
leads to
- Mark 11:18
  When the chief priests and scribes heard this, they looked for a way to kill Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.
Through
Joshua 13:3
All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites, from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of…
leads to
- Jeremiah 2:18
  Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

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Where the connections lead

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06About Zephaniah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Zephaniah