Zechariah 9:6

Easy-to-Read Version

The people in Ashdod will not even know who their real fathers are. The Lord says, "I will completely destroy the proud Philistines.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A mongrel people will live in Ashdod,and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

Hebrew Names Version
Foriegners will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Pelishtim.

King James Version (1611)
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

King James Version
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

English Standard Version
a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.

New American Standard Bible
And a people of mixed origins will live in Ashdod, And I will eliminate the pride of the Philistines.

New Century Version
Foreigners will live in Ashdod, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

Amplified Bible
And a mongrel race will live in Ashdod, And I will put an end to the pride and arrogance of the Philistines.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the stranger shal dwell in Ashdod, and I wil cut off the pride of the Philistims.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Legacy Standard Bible
And those of illegitimate birth will inhabit Ashdod,And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Berean Standard Bible
A mixed race will occupy Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Contemporary English Version
A mob of half-breeds will settle in Ashdod, and the Lord himself will rob Philistia of pride.

Complete Jewish Bible
and a mixed people will live in Ashdod, as I destroy the pride of the P'lishtim.

Darby Translation
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines;

George Lamsa Translation
And strangers shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will bring to an end the pride of the Philistines.

Good News Translation
People of mixed race will live in Ashdod. The Lord says, "I will humble all these proud Philistines.

Lexham English Bible
A mongrel people will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut down the pride of the Philistines.

Literal Translation
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

American Standard Version
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Bible in Basic English
And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Straungers shall dwel at Asdod, and as for the pride of the Philistines I shal roote it out.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And aliens shall dwell in Azotus, and I will bring down the pride of the Philistines.

English Revised Version
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

World English Bible
Foriegners will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and a departere schal sitte in Asotus, and Y schal distrie the pride of Filisteis.

Update Bible Version
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Webster's Bible Translation
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

New English Translation
A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.

New King James Version
"A mixed race shall settle in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

New Living Translation
Foreigners will occupy the city of Ashdod. I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

New Life Bible
A mixed people will live in Ashdod, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

New Revised Standard
a mongrel people shall settle in Ashdod, and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there shall be seated a half-breed in Ashdod, - So will I cut off the arrogance of the Philistines;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

Revised Standard Version
a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia.

Young's Literal Translation
And dwelt hath a foreigner in Ashdod, And I have cut off the excellency of the Philistines.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Straugers shall dwel at A?dod, & as for ye pryde of ye Philistynes, I shal rote it out.

Contextual Overview

¹ This is the Lord 's message against the land of Hadrach and against the city of Damascus. The tribes of Israel are not the only people who know about the Lord . Everyone looks to him for help. ² This message is also against the city of Hamath near Damascus. And this message is against Tyre and Sidon, even though those people have been so wise and skillful. ³ Tyre is built like a fort. The people there have collected so much silver that it is like dust, and gold is as common as clay. ⁴ But the Lord will take it all. He will destroy her powerful navy and that city will be destroyed by fire! ⁵ The people in Ashkelon will see this and they will be afraid. The people of Gaza will shake with fear, and the people of Ekron will lose all hope when they see this happen. There will be no king left in Gaza. No one will live in Ashkelon anymore. ⁶ The people in Ashdod will not even know who their real fathers are. The Lord says, "I will completely destroy the proud Philistines. ⁷ They will no longer eat meat with the blood still in it or any other forbidden food. Any Philistine left alive will become a part of my people; they will be just one more tribe in Judah. The people of Ekron will become a part of my people, as the Jebusites did. ⁸ I will protect my country. I will not let enemy armies pass through it. I will not let them hurt my people anymore. With my own eyes I have seen how much my people have suffered."

Bible Verse Review
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Ecclesiastes 2:18-21, Ecclesiastes 6:2, Amos 1:8, Isaiah 2:12-17, Isaiah 23:9, Isaiah 28:1, Daniel 4:37, Zephaniah 2:10, 1 Peter 5:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:2 - General 1 Samuel 6:17 - Ashdod Nehemiah 4:7 - Ashdodites Zephaniah 2:7 - the coast Acts 8:40 - at

Cross-References

Genesis 4:14
You are forcing me to leave the land, and I will not be able to be near you or have a home! Now I must wander from place to place, and anyone I meet could kill me."

Genesis 5:1
This is the history of Adam's family. When God created people, he made them like himself.

Genesis 9:2
Every animal on earth, every bird in the air, every animal that crawls on the ground, and every fish in the sea will be afraid of you. All of them will be under your control.

Genesis 9:3
In the past, I gave you the green plants to eat. Now every animal will also be food for you. I give you everything on earth—it is yours.

Genesis 9:5
Also, I will demand your blood for your lives. That is, I will demand the life of any person or animal that takes a human life.

Genesis 9:6
"God made humans to be like himself. So whoever kills a person must be killed by another person.

Genesis 9:12
And God said, "I will give you something to prove that I made this promise to you. It will continue forever to show that I have made an agreement with you and every living thing on earth.

Genesis 9:14
When I bring clouds over the earth, you will see the rainbow in the clouds.

Genesis 9:26
Noah also said, "May the Lord , the God of Shem, be praised! May Canaan be Shem's slave.

Genesis 9:27
May God give more land to Japheth. May God live in Shem's tents, and may Canaan be their slave."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod,.... Some p take "mamzer", the word for "bastard", to be the name of a people that should dwell in Ashdod; this is the same place with Azotus, Acts 8:40 and was also one of the five lordships of the Philistines,

Joshua 13:3 some, by the "bastard" here, understand Alexander the great, who gave out that he was not the son of Philip, but of Jupiter Ammon: others think Jonathan the Maccabee is intended, who took this place and burnt it with fire, and the temple of Dagon in it,

"83 The horsemen also, being scattered in the field, fled to Azotus, and went into Bethdagon, their idol's temple, for safety. 84 But Jonathan set fire on Azotus, and the cities round about it, and took their spoils; and the temple of Dagon, with them that were fled into it, he burned with fire.'' (1 Maccabees 10)

and though he was not a bastard, yet was a stranger to the Philistines; in which sense the Jewish commentators, Jarchi and Kimchi, interpret the word, and understand it of the Israelites who should dwell in this place; even those, as Aben Ezra says, who were abject, mean, and despised among the Israelites; which would be a great mortification to the proud Philistines, as is suggested in the next clause: and to this sense the Targum paraphrases the words,

"and the house of Israel shall dwell in Ashdod, who shall be in it as strangers:''

but it is best to understand this of Israelites indeed, of true Christians, who are accounted spurious, not the children of God, but aliens and strangers, the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things; who should dwell here when the Gospel was preached in it, as doubtless it was by Philip, Acts 8:40 and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render the words, "and strangers shall dwell in Ashdod"; men of another religion, and despised and not owned even by their relations, as if they were bastards.

And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines; by Alexander, and by the Jews in the times of the Maccabees, bringing them into subjection, which their haughty spirits could not well bear; or through the abolition of their old Heathenish religion, in which they prided themselves. It may be observed, that all along the conversion of these various people to Christianity is expressed in terms which seem to signify the destruction of them; and that partly because, in the literal sense, reference is had to the conquest of them by Alexander, by which means the Greek language obtained in Syria and Phoenicia, into which, a little after, the Bible was translated, which paved the way for the bringing of these people to the knowledge of Christ, through the preaching of the Gospel; and partly because Paganism was abolished in these places when Christianity prevailed.

p R. Judah ben Bileam apud Aben Ezram in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And a bastard shall dwell at Ashdod - ^o The “mamzer” was one born unlawfully, whether out of marriage, or in forbidden marriage, or in adultery . Here it is, probably, like our “spurious brood” ; whether it was so itself or in the eyes of the Ashdodites; whence he adds.

I will cut off the pride of the Philistines - Pride would survive the ruin of their country, the capture of their cities, the less of independence. It would not survive the loss of their nationality; for they themselves would not be the same people, who were proud of their long descent and their victories over Israel. The breaking down of nationalities, which was the policy of Alexander, was an instrument in God’s hands in cutting off their pride.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 9:6. A bastard shall dwell in Ashdod — This character would suit Alexander very well, who most certainly was a bastard; for his mother Olympia said that Jupiter Ammon entered her apartment in the shape of a dragon, and begat Alexander! Could her husband Philip believe this? The word signifies a stranger.