Jeremiah 25:20

20 and to all the mingled people and to all the kings of the land of Uz and to all the kings of the land of the Philistines and to Ashkelon and to Gaza and to Ekron and to the remnant of Ashdod,

Jeremiah 25:20 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 25:20

And all the mingled people
Not the Arabians, who are mentioned afterwards, ( Jeremiah 25:24 ) ; but rather a mixed people in the land of Egypt, such as came out of it along with the Israelites; or were near it, and bordered upon it, as the Targum; which renders it, all the bordering kings; or rather a mixture of people of different nations that dwelt by the sea coasts, either the Mediterranean, or the Red sea, as others think: and all the kings of the land of Uz;
not the country of Job, called by the Greeks Ausitis, as the Vulgate Latin version; but rather a country of Idumea, so called from Uz the son of Dishan, the son of Seir, ( Lamentations 4:21 ) ( Genesis 36:28 ) ; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines;
the petty kings of it, called the lords of the Philistines elsewhere, who were great enemies to the people of the Jews: the prophecy of their destruction is in forty seventh chapter, and whose principal cities are next mentioned: and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
of Ashkelon, and the sword in it, and ruin, see ( Jeremiah 47:5 Jeremiah 47:7 ) . "Azzah" is the same with Gaza, whose destruction is also foretold in ( Jeremiah 47:1 Jeremiah 47:5 ) ; see ( Acts 8:26 ) ; "Ekron" was another of the cities of the Philistines; see ( 1 Samuel 5:10 ) ; and "Ashdod" is the same with Azotus, another of their cities, ( Acts 8:40 ) ; called "the remnant of Ashdod", because the remains only of a once very strong and fortified place; but was so weakened and wasted by Psammiticus, king of Egypt, in a blockade of it, for the space of nine and twenty years ^F11, before he took it, that when he had got in it, it was but as the carcass of a city, to what it was before ^F12.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Herodot. l. 2. c. 157.
F12 Vid. Prideaux, Connexion, part 1. B. 1. p. 34.

Jeremiah 25:20 In-Context

18 unto Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah and to its kings and to its princes, that I might place them into desolation, into astonishment, and into hissing, and into a curse, as this day,

19 unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his slaves and to his princes and to all his people,

20 and to all the mingled people and to all the kings of the land of Uz and to all the kings of the land of the Philistines and to Ashkelon and to Gaza and to Ekron and to the remnant of Ashdod,

21 to Edom and to Moab and to the sons of Ammon,

22 and to all the kings of Tyre and to all the kings of Zidon and to all the kings of the isles which are of that side of the sea,