I will take away his bloud] Heb. blouds. I will make that they shall no more devoure my people. his abominations from between his teeth] That is, abominable spoyles. but he that remaineth] That little remainder of my people, which escaped from the enemies violence, shall be gathered together by God, and held as part of his people, as a commonalty thereof, governed by it head, as the other commonalties of Judah were. See Judges 6:15. Micah 5. 2. Ekron] The Philistims shall be utterly destroyed, as the Jebusites were by David, 2 Samuel 5:6. Or shall be slaves and tributaries and appointed to destruction, as the Jebusites, and the rest of the Canaanites were.