Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 1:6
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6. Gaza —the southernmost of the five capitals of the five divisions of Philistia, and the key to Palestine on the south: hence put for the whole Philistine nation. Uzziah commenced the fulfilment of this prophecy (see :- ). because they carried away . . . the whole captivity —that is, they left none. Compare with the phrase here, Jeremiah 13:19 , "Judah . . . carried captive all of it . . . wholly carried away." Under Jehoram already the Philistines had carried away all the substance of the king of Judah, and his wives and his sons, "so that there was never a son left to him, save Jehoahaz"; and after Amos' time (if the reference includes the future, which to the prophet's eye is as if already done), under Ahaz ( Jeremiah 13:19- : ), they seized on all the cities and villages of the low country and south of Judah. to deliver them up to Edom —Judah's bitterest foe; as slaves ( Jeremiah 13:19- : ; compare Joel 3:1 ; Joel 3:3 ; Joel 3:6 ). GROTIUS refers it to the fact ( Isaiah 16:4 ) that on Sennacherib's invasion of Judah, many fled for refuge to neighboring countries; the Philistines, instead of hospitably sheltering the refugees, sold them, as if captives in war, to their enemies, the Idumeans. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"
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