to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon] Which being of the posteritie of Canaan the sonne of Cham, and bordering on the Philistines, Joshua 19:29. were on all occasions ready to assist them. the remnant of the countrey] Heb. the isle. Isaiah 20:6. &Isaiah 42:15. Chap. 2. 10. of Caphtor] Which coming also of the same race with the Philistines, dwelt neer unto them; possessing sometime the countrey thereabout even unto Gaza; Deuteronomy 2:23. and, as may seem, having sometime subdued the Philistines, Amos 9:7. but were now in confederacie with them; and like to fare as they did. Some suppose them to be put here for the Philistines, called the remnant of them, because descended from them, or left by them, when they over-ranne their countrey, and carried many of them away captive: but they seem rather distinct, as the other places here mentioned: and that they are called the remnant of that land, either because the Egyptians had made spoil of them before-time, when they invaded the Philistines countrey; vers. 1. or because the Chaldeans had begun with them, ere they fell upon the Philistines countrey. See the like Chap. 25. 20.