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Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The LORD’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant.
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Verse 5. Coast. Lit. “line,” ( Bible.) with which land was measured. Calmet.—Reprobates. Hebrew cerethim, ( Bible.) or Cerethi, of whom David’s guards were formed. Calmet.—Septuagint “people sprung the Cretans,” whence some (Theod.) of the Philistines came, perhaps rather than from Cyprus, as was conjectured. Genesis 10:14.—Chanaan. So the Philistines are styled contemptuously. They adored the same idols. Wisd. 12:23.
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