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The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
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From Cities to Pastures
Commentators explain that this verse prophesies a complete reversal for the powerful Philistines. Their bustling coastal cities would become so desolate that they would be reduced to simple pastures with crude shelters for shepherds. This stark image illustrates God's power to humble the proud and bring mighty nations to nothing.
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Zephaniah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The seacoast shall be dwellings and cottages - literally, cuttings or diggings. This is the central meaning of the word; the place of the Ch…
19th Century
Anglican
Dwellings and cottages for shepherds. —Better, places for shepherds’ pastures. In c ’ rôth (be…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] cottages for shepherds That tract of land …
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