give presents] Buy the friendship and assistance of this citie of the Philistims, and of other cities of that nation, against the Assyrians: yet all shall be in vain. to] Or, for. Achzib] That is, a lie. It appears by Joshua 19:29. Judges 1:31. that this citie was one of those, out of which the Canaanites could not be driven: and it seems that upon this invasion of the Assyrians, the Israelites had made a league with those nations, by whom they were deluded, either through weaknesse, or perfidiousnesse: And Micha among those cities hath made choice of Achzib, by reason of the signification of the name, which is, a lie.