Zephaniah 2:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

Isaiah 14:30

In my pastures the poor will graze and the needy lie down in safety, but I will make your root die of famine, and your remnant I will kill.

Jeremiah 47:7

How can it be quiet, when the Lord has given it an order? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore— there he has appointed it.

Ezekiel 25:16

therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Amos 5:1

Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

Zephaniah 1:11

The inhabitants of the Mortar wail, for all the traders have perished; all who weigh out silver are cut off.

Zephaniah 3:6

I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without people, without inhabitants.

Zechariah 1:6

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, ‘The Lord of hosts has dealt with us according to our ways and deeds, just as he planned to do.’ ”

Mark 12:12

When they realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd. So they left him and went away.

Joshua 13:2

This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites

Joshua 13:3

(from the Shihor, which is near Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is reckoned as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim

Judges 3:3

the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.

1 Samuel 30:14

We had made a raid on the Negeb of the Cherethites and on that which belongs to Judah and on the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag down.”