Ezekiel 25:16

Overview - Ezekiel 25
God's vengeance, for their insolency against the Jews, upon the Ammonites;
upon Moab and Seir;
12 upon Edom;
15 and upon the Philistines.
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Ezekiel 25:16  (King James Version)
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.
 


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 Ezekiel 25:13

Cherethims
1 Samuel 30:14 ; 2 Samuel 15:18 ; Zephaniah 2:4 Zephaniah 2:5-15

Cherethites
and destroy.
Jeremiah 47:4

sea coasts
or, haven of the sea.