And God helped him against the Philistines,.... He did not do all before related of himself, and by his own strength, but by the help of God; the Targum is"the Word of the Lord helped him:" and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal; the same with Gerar, according to the Targum; which also belonged to the Philistines, and had a king in Abraham's time, Gen 20:1, the same with Askelon, another of the five principalities of the Philistines: and the Mehunims; or the Minaeans, as the Septuagint, and whom Pliny (n) makes mention of among the Arabians; they seem to be the Scenite Arabs; see Ch2 20:1, or rather, as the Targum, those that dwelt in the plain of Maon, which was in Arabia Petraea. (n) Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 28.