all the mingled people] The severall nations hereafter named; whose borders mingled one with another: or rather, a certain people of Arabia, that lived wildly, wandring from place to place, and being a mixture of divers nations, Genesis 14:1. Ezekiel 30:5. Chap. 50. 37.
the land of Ʋz,] Part of the East countrey, bordering upon Idumea, Job 1:1. Lamentations 4:21. so called, either of Uz the sonne of Aram; Genesis 10:23. or of Uz descended from Seir, Genesis 36:28.
Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron] Cities of the Philistines. 1 Samuel 6:17.
the remnant of Ashdod] Because, as is supposed, the father of Pharaoh Nechoh an Egyptian King had long besieged, and much impaired that citie. Herodotus lib. 2. Or, because it had been sacked and much wasted by Tartan, one of Senacheribs commanders, Isaiah 20:1. So Chap. 47. 4.