Zephaniah 2:4
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For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ascalon shall be a desert, they shall cast out Azotus at noonday, and Accaron shall be rooted up.

Gaza.

Jeremiah 25:20 And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.

Jeremiah 47:1-7 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza. . . .

Ezekiel 25:15-17 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the Philistines have taken vengeance, and have revenged themselves with all their mind, destroying and satisfying old enmities: . . .

Amos 1:6-8 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I will not convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity to shut them up in Edom. . . .

Zechariah 9:5-7 Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very sorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited. . . .

at.

Psalm 91:6 Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

Jeremiah 6:4 Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.

Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.

Context
The Judgment on the Philistines
4For Gaza shall be destroyed, and Ascalon shall be a desert, they shall cast out Azotus at noonday, and Accaron shall be rooted up.5Woe to you that inhabit the sea coast, O nation of reprobates: the word of the Lord upon you, O Chanaan, the land of the Philistines, and I will destroy thee, so that there shall not be an inhabitant.…
Cross References
Isaiah 14:29
Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.

Jeremiah 6:4
Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.

Jeremiah 47:1
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.

Jeremiah 47:5
Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace with the remnant of their valley: how long shalt thou cut thyself?

Amos 1:6
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four I will not convert it: because they have carried away a perfect captivity to shut them up in Edom.

Amos 1:7
And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Amos 1:8
And I will cut off the inhabitant from Azotus, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ascalon: and I will turn my hand against Accaron, and the rest of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord God.

Zechariah 9:5
Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be very sorrowful: and Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited.

Zechariah 9:6
And the divider shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

Lexicon
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

Gaza
עַזָּה֙ (‘az·zāh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5804: A Philistine city

will be
תִֽהְיֶ֔ה (ṯih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

abandoned,
עֲזוּבָ֣ה (‘ă·zū·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

and Ashkelon
וְאַשְׁקְל֖וֹן (wə·’aš·qə·lō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 831: Ashkelon -- a city of the Philistines

left in ruins.
לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה (liš·mā·māh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8077: Devastation, astonishment

Ashdod
אַשְׁדּ֗וֹד (’aš·dō·wḏ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 795: Ashdod -- a city of the Philistines

will be driven out
יְגָ֣רְשׁ֔וּהָ (yə·ḡā·rə·šū·hā)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1644: To drive out from a, possession, to expatriate, divorce

at noon,
בַּֽצָּהֳרַ֙יִם֙ (baṣ·ṣā·ho·ra·yim)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6672: A light, double light, noon

and Ekron
וְעֶקְר֖וֹן (wə·‘eq·rō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6138: Ekron -- a Philistine city

will be uprooted.
תֵּעָקֵֽר׃ (tê·‘ā·qêr)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6131: To pluck up, to hamstring, to exterminate


Additional Translations
For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

For Gaza shall be utterly spoiled, and Ascalon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall be cast forth at noon-day, and Accaron shall be rooted up.

For Gazah shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.

For Gaza is forsaken, And Ashkelon is for a desolation, Ashdod! at noon they do cast her forth, And Ekron is rooted up.
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