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Contemporary English Version

Zechariah 9:6

A mob of half-breeds will settle in Ashdod, and the Lord himself will rob Philistia of pride.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ashdod;   Bastard;   Philistines;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Philistines, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Zechariah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Philistia, philistines;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bastard;   Prophecy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ashdod;   Bastards;   Gath;   Philistia;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alexander the Great;   Ashdod;   Bastard;   Gath;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   Ekron;   Micah, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gath;   Zechariah, Prophecy of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ashdod;   Bastard;   Philistines;   Zechariah, Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ashdod;   Bastard;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ashdod;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A mongrel people will live in Ashdod,and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
Hebrew Names Version
Foriegners will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Pelishtim.
King James Version (1611)
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
King James Version
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
English Standard Version
a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.
New American Standard Bible
And a people of mixed origins will live in Ashdod, And I will eliminate the pride of the Philistines.
New Century Version
Foreigners will live in Ashdod, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
Amplified Bible
And a mongrel race will live in Ashdod, And I will put an end to the pride and arrogance of the Philistines.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the stranger shal dwell in Ashdod, and I wil cut off the pride of the Philistims.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Legacy Standard Bible
And those of illegitimate birth will inhabit Ashdod,And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Berean Standard Bible
A mixed race will occupy Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Complete Jewish Bible
and a mixed people will live in Ashdod, as I destroy the pride of the P'lishtim.
Darby Translation
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines;
Easy-to-Read Version
The people in Ashdod will not even know who their real fathers are. The Lord says, "I will completely destroy the proud Philistines.
George Lamsa Translation
And strangers shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will bring to an end the pride of the Philistines.
Good News Translation
People of mixed race will live in Ashdod. The Lord says, "I will humble all these proud Philistines.
Lexham English Bible
A mongrel people will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut down the pride of the Philistines.
Literal Translation
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
American Standard Version
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Bible in Basic English
And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Straungers shall dwel at Asdod, and as for the pride of the Philistines I shal roote it out.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And aliens shall dwell in Azotus, and I will bring down the pride of the Philistines.
English Revised Version
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
World English Bible
Foriegners will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and a departere schal sitte in Asotus, and Y schal distrie the pride of Filisteis.
Update Bible Version
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Webster's Bible Translation
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
New English Translation
A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.
New King James Version
"A mixed race shall settle in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
New Living Translation
Foreigners will occupy the city of Ashdod. I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
New Life Bible
A mixed people will live in Ashdod, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
New Revised Standard
a mongrel people shall settle in Ashdod, and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there shall be seated a half-breed in Ashdod, - So will I cut off the arrogance of the Philistines;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.
Revised Standard Version
a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.
Young's Literal Translation
And dwelt hath a foreigner in Ashdod, And I have cut off the excellency of the Philistines.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Straugers shall dwel at A?dod, & as for ye pryde of ye Philistynes, I shal rote it out.

Contextual Overview

1 This is a message from the Lord : His eyes are on everyone, especially the tribes of Israel. So he pronounces judgment against the cities of Hadrach and Damascus. 2 Judgment will also fall on the nearby city of Hamath, as well as on Tyre and Sidon, whose people are clever. 3 Tyre has built a fortress and piled up silver and gold, as though they were dust or mud from the streets. 4 Now the Lord will punish Tyre with poverty; he will sink its ships and send it up in flames. 5 Both Ashkelon and Gaza will tremble with fear; Ekron will lose all hope. Gaza's king will be killed, and Ashkelon emptied of its people. 6 A mob of half-breeds will settle in Ashdod, and the Lord himself will rob Philistia of pride. 7 No longer will the Philistines eat meat with blood in it or any unclean food. They will become part of the people of our God from the tribe of Judah. And God will accept the people of Ekron, as he did the Jebusites. 8 God says, "I will stand guard to protect my temple from those who come to attack. I know what's happening, and no one will mistreat my people ever again."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 2:18-21, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Amos 1:8, Isaiah 2:12-17, Isaiah 23:9, Isaiah 28:1, Daniel 4:37, Zephaniah 2:10, 1 Peter 5:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:2 - General 1 Samuel 6:17 - Ashdod Nehemiah 4:7 - Ashdodites Zephaniah 2:7 - the coast Acts 8:40 - at

Cross-References

Genesis 4:14
"You're making me leave my home and live far from you. I will have to wander about without a home, and just anyone could kill me."
Genesis 5:1
God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:
Genesis 9:2
All animals, birds, reptiles, and fish will be afraid of you. I have placed them under your control,
Genesis 9:3
and I have given them to you for food. From now on, you may eat them, as well as the green plants that you have always eaten.
Genesis 9:5
I created humans to be like me, and I will punish any animal or person that takes a human life. If an animal kills someone, that animal must die. And if a person takes the life of another, that person must be put to death.
Genesis 9:12
The rainbow that I have put in the sky will be my sign to you and to every living creature on earth. It will remind you that I will keep this promise forever.
Genesis 9:14
When I send clouds over the earth, and a rainbow appears in the sky,
Genesis 9:26
I ask the Lord my God to bless Shem and make Canaan his slave.
Genesis 9:27
I pray that the Lord will give Japheth more and more land and let him take over the territory of Shem. May Canaan be his slave."
Genesis 9:28
Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod,.... Some p take "mamzer", the word for "bastard", to be the name of a people that should dwell in Ashdod; this is the same place with Azotus, Acts 8:40 and was also one of the five lordships of the Philistines,

Joshua 13:3 some, by the "bastard" here, understand Alexander the great, who gave out that he was not the son of Philip, but of Jupiter Ammon: others think Jonathan the Maccabee is intended, who took this place and burnt it with fire, and the temple of Dagon in it,

"83 The horsemen also, being scattered in the field, fled to Azotus, and went into Bethdagon, their idol's temple, for safety. 84 But Jonathan set fire on Azotus, and the cities round about it, and took their spoils; and the temple of Dagon, with them that were fled into it, he burned with fire.'' (1 Maccabees 10)

and though he was not a bastard, yet was a stranger to the Philistines; in which sense the Jewish commentators, Jarchi and Kimchi, interpret the word, and understand it of the Israelites who should dwell in this place; even those, as Aben Ezra says, who were abject, mean, and despised among the Israelites; which would be a great mortification to the proud Philistines, as is suggested in the next clause: and to this sense the Targum paraphrases the words,

"and the house of Israel shall dwell in Ashdod, who shall be in it as strangers:''

but it is best to understand this of Israelites indeed, of true Christians, who are accounted spurious, not the children of God, but aliens and strangers, the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things; who should dwell here when the Gospel was preached in it, as doubtless it was by Philip, Acts 8:40 and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render the words, "and strangers shall dwell in Ashdod"; men of another religion, and despised and not owned even by their relations, as if they were bastards.

And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines; by Alexander, and by the Jews in the times of the Maccabees, bringing them into subjection, which their haughty spirits could not well bear; or through the abolition of their old Heathenish religion, in which they prided themselves. It may be observed, that all along the conversion of these various people to Christianity is expressed in terms which seem to signify the destruction of them; and that partly because, in the literal sense, reference is had to the conquest of them by Alexander, by which means the Greek language obtained in Syria and Phoenicia, into which, a little after, the Bible was translated, which paved the way for the bringing of these people to the knowledge of Christ, through the preaching of the Gospel; and partly because Paganism was abolished in these places when Christianity prevailed.

p R. Judah ben Bileam apud Aben Ezram in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And a bastard shall dwell at Ashdod - o The “mamzer” was one born unlawfully, whether out of marriage, or in forbidden marriage, or in adultery . Here it is, probably, like our “spurious brood” ; whether it was so itself or in the eyes of the Ashdodites; whence he adds.

I will cut off the pride of the Philistines - Pride would survive the ruin of their country, the capture of their cities, the less of independence. It would not survive the loss of their nationality; for they themselves would not be the same people, who were proud of their long descent and their victories over Israel. The breaking down of nationalities, which was the policy of Alexander, was an instrument in God’s hands in cutting off their pride.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 9:6. A bastard shall dwell in Ashdod — This character would suit Alexander very well, who most certainly was a bastard; for his mother Olympia said that Jupiter Ammon entered her apartment in the shape of a dragon, and begat Alexander! Could her husband Philip believe this? The word signifies a stranger.


 
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