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.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Note sea coast: or, haven of the sea
therefore the Lord God says, “Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I will stretch
- These predictions against the Philistines, Edomites, and others, seem to have been fulfilled by by Nebuchadnezzar during the siege of Tyre. Berosus states that he subdued Syria, Arabia, Phoenicia, and Egypt; and now their very names have no existence, except in history.
- Ezekiel 25:7, 13
- Cherethims
- 1 Samuel 30:14; 2 Samuel 15:18; Zephaniah 2:4, 5–15
- Cherethites
- and destroy.
- Jeremiah 47:4