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mingled people - mercenary foreign troops serving under Pharaoh-hophra in the time of Jeremiah. The employment of these foreigners provoked the native Egyptians to overthrow him. Psammetichus, father of Pharaoh-necho, also had given a settlement in Egypt to Ionian and Carian adventurers [Herodotus, 2.152, 154]. (Compare Jer 50:37; see on Isa 19:2, Isa 19:3; Isa 20:1; Eze 30:5. The term is first found in Exo 12:38.
Uz - in the geographical order here, between Egypt and the states along the Mediterranean; therefore not the “Uz” of Job 1:1 (north of Arabia-Deserta), but the northern part of Arabia-Petraea, between the sea and Idumea (Lam 4:21; see Gen 36:20, Gen 36:28).
remnant of Ashdod - called a “remnant,” because Ashdod had lost most of its inhabitants in the twenty-nine years siege by Psammetichus. Compare also see on Isa 20:1. Gath is not mentioned because it was overthrown in the same war.