(7) Against the sea shore.--In the "sea shore," as in Ezekiel 25:16, we have the term specially appropriate to the territory of the Philistines. Verse 7. - The seashore. So Ezekiel speaks of "the remnant of the seashore" (Ezekiel 25:16), referring to Philistia. seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the seashore? for it had a commission from the Lord to destroy the inhabitants of Ashkelon, and other places, which lay still more towards the sea, as Joppa and Jamne; and indeed all Palestine lay on the coast of the Mediterranean sea: there hath he appointed it; by an irreversible decree of his, in righteousness to punish the inhabitants of these places for their sins. |