Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Parallel translations
- KJV And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- BSB A mixed race will occupy Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- NKJV “A mixed race shall settle in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- NASB And a people of mixed origins will live in Ashdod, And I will eliminate the pride of the Philistines.
- NLT Foreigners will occupy the city of Ashdod. I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
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Quick answer
Foreigners will occupy Ashdod, and God will cut off Philistine pride. The Lord humbles the arrogance of Israel's old enemy.
Overview
The mixed population in Ashdod signals the loss of Philistine national identity and power. Cutting off their 'pride' targets the self-exalting arrogance that had long opposed God's people. The judgment prepares the way for the surprising note of grace in the following verse.
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- Amos 1:8I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Zeph 2:10This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
- Eccl 2:18–21I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
- Isa 28:1Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
- Isa 2:12–17For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
- Eccl 6:2a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
- Isa 23:9Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
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