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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.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 16. Killers. Hebrew “Ceretheans.” David’s guards were of this nation. 2 Kennicott. 8:18. They came originally from Crete; and the Septuagint have here, “Cretans;” ( Calmet.) as Grabe substitutes for “Judges of Sidon.” Bible.—Chal. “archers.”—Remnant. They deserve not the name of a nation, having been much reduced by Egypt and the Chaldeans. Calmet.
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