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
2Ch 26:6).
because they carried away . . . the whole captivity--that is, they left
none. Compare with the phrase here,
Jer 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
(2Ch 28:18),
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
(Am 1:9;
compare
Joe 3:1, 3, 6).
GROTIUS refers it to the fact
(Isa 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.
JFB.
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