23 As for the Avʹvim,+ who were dwelling in settlements as far as Gaʹza,+ the Caphʹto·rim,+ who came out from Caphʹtor,+ annihilated them, that they might dwell in their place.)

4 on account of the day that is coming to despoil all the Phi·lisʹtines,+ to cut off from Tyre+ and from Siʹdon+ every survivor that was helping.+ For Jehovah is despoiling the Phi·lisʹtines,+ who are the remaining ones from the island of Caphʹtor.+

7 “‘Are YOU not like the sons of the Cushʹites* to me, O sons of Israel?’ is the utterance of Jehovah. ‘Did I not bring Israel itself up out of the land of Egypt,+ and the Phi·lisʹtines+ out of Crete,* and Syria* out of Kir?’*+