Adam Clarke Commentary - Amos 1:6 - 1:6

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Amos 1:6 - 1:6


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They carried away captive - Gaza is well known to have been one of the five lordships of the Philistines; it lay on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near to Egypt. Erkon, Ashdod, and Askelon, were other signories of the same people, which are here equally threatened with Gaza. The captivity mentioned here may refer to inroads and incursions made by the Philistines in times of peace. See 2Ch 21:16. The margin reads, an entire captivity. They took all away; none of them afterwards returned.