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Beware, you who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete.[a]
The Lord’s message is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines:
“I will destroy everyone who lives there!”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:5 tn Heb “Kerethites,” a people settled alongside the Philistines in the coastal areas of southern Palestine (cf. 1 Sam 30:14; Ezek 25:16). They originally came from the island of Crete.
  2. Zephaniah 2:5 tn Heb “I will destroy you so there is no inhabitant [remaining].”