Matthew Poole and continuators on Zephaniah 2:4

4 For Gaza shall be forsaken and Ashkelon a desolation : they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day , and Ekron shall be rooted up .

It is time to seek some refuge, high time to seek it in God, for your neighbours, as well as you, shall be destroy'd, there shall be no refuge for you among your neighbours.

A chief City of the Philistins, very strong by its situation, and by art fortified a Frontier toward Egypt, and not full three miles from the Sea.

When the conquering Army of the Chaldeans shall come against it, shall be forsaken either by the flight or captivity of the inhabitants.

Another of the strong Cities of the Philistines which fell to the Tribe of Dan, and was a Maritine Town.

Utterly wasted, so the abstract doth imply.

Babylonians. Vid. Ezek. 25.15, 16, 17.

Into captivity, cast them out of their own and force them into a strange land.

A strong fortified City of Palestina called in after times Azotus.

It shall be taken by force at Noon, or the Citizens led away captive in the heat of the day, and under parching heats.

Famous for its infamous Idolatry where Baalzebub was worshipp'd, the chief Seat of Devil-worship.

Utterly extirpated, no more to spring up. Vid. Ier. 47.4, 5. it shall be as a Tree pull'd up by the Roots, or maimed, as Horses that are houghed, as Iosh. 11.9.

Marginal references: Amos 1.6. Zech. 9.5.