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·The city of Ashkelon [L Ashkelon] will see it and be afraid.
    ·The people of Gaza [L Gaza] will ·shake with fear [writhe in anguish],
    and ·the people of Ekron [L Ekron] ·will lose hope [or their hope will wither].
No king will be left in Gaza,
    and no one will live in Ashkelon anymore.
·Foreigners [A mixed/mongrel people] will live in Ashdod,
    and I will ·destroy [L cut off] the pride of the Philistines.
I will ·stop them from drinking blood [L take the blood from their mouths; Lev. 3:17; Deut. 12:16, 23]
    and ·from eating forbidden food [L its abominations from between its teeth].
Those left alive will belong to God.
    They will be ·leaders [or like a clan] in Judah,
    and Ekron will become like the Jebusites [C ancient inhabitants of Jerusalem who were assimilated into Judah].

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