23 As for (A)the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as (B)Gaza, (C)the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)

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(from the (A)Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; (B)there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of (C)the Avvim,

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14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom[a] the Philistines came), and (A)Caphtorim.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 10:14 Or from where

“Are you not like (A)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
(B)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and (C)the Philistines from (D)Caphtor and the Syrians from (E)Kir?

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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.

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20 and (A)all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of (B)the land of Uz and all the kings of (C)the land of the Philistines ((D)Ashkelon, (E)Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of (F)Ashdod);

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26 And (A)he made from one man every nation of mankind to live (B)on all the face of the earth, (C)having determined allotted periods and (D)the boundaries of their dwelling place,

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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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(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.

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24 For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates[a] from Tiphsah to (A)Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. (B)And he had peace on all sides around him.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 4:24 Hebrew the River; twice in this verse

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