Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Gaza,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (C)they carried into exile a whole people
    to deliver them up to Edom.

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11 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
(C)because he pursued his brother with the sword
    (D)and cast off all pity,
(E)and his anger tore perpetually,
    (F)and he kept his wrath forever.

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18 (A)And the Philistines had made raids on (B)the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco (C)with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.

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11 (A)On the day that you stood aloof,
    (B)on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    (C)and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Tyre,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
    and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

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17 These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a (A)guilt offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron,

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(A)For Gaza shall be deserted,
    and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;
Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon,
    and Ekron shall be uprooted.

Woe to (B)you inhabitants of the seacoast,
    you nation of (C)the Cherethites!
(D)The word of the Lord is against you,
    (E)O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
    and I will destroy you (F)until no inhabitant is left.
(G)And you, O seacoast, (H)shall be pastures,
    with meadows[a] for shepherds
    and folds for flocks.
(I)The seacoast shall become the possession
    of (J)the remnant of the house of Judah,
    (K)on which they shall graze,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
    they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God (L)will be mindful of them
    and (M)restore their fortunes.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:6 Or caves

You have sold (A)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.

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Because (A)you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword (B)at the time of their calamity, (C)at the time of their final punishment,

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because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all (A)the Philistines,
to cut off from (B)Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    (C)the remnant of the coastland of (D)Caphtor.
(E)Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    (F)Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
    (G)how long will you gash yourselves?

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29 Rejoice not, (A)O Philistia, all of you,
    that (B)the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,
    and its fruit will be a (C)flying fiery serpent.
30 And the firstborn of (D)the poor will graze,
    and (E)the needy lie down in safety;
but I will kill your root with famine,
    and your remnant it will slay.
31 (F)Wail, O (G)gate; cry out, O city;
    melt in fear, (H)O Philistia, all of you!
(I)For smoke comes out of the north,
    and there is no straggler in his ranks.

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(A)Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;
    Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;
    Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
    Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;

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Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of (B)Damascus,
    and for four, (C)I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they have threshed (D)Gilead
    with threshing sledges of iron.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:3 Hebrew I will not turn it back; also verses 6, 9, 11, 13

Prophecy Against Philistia

15 “Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)the Philistines (B)acted revengefully and took vengeance (C)with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity, 16 therefore thus says the Lord God, (D)Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off (E)the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

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Judgment on the Philistines

47 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet (A)concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down (B)Gaza.

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Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch

26 Now (A)an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south[a] to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 8:26 Or go at about noon

16 (A)And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger[a] of the Philistines and of (B)the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians. 17 And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except (C)Jehoahaz, his youngest son.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 21:16 Hebrew spirit

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