Zechariah 9:7

I will take away his blood out of his mouth; though proud and warlike nations have delighted to shed blood, nay, (if some judge aright,) to eat the blood of their slain enemies; yet now God will restrain, nay, overthrow their power, and take the prey out of their mouth, they shall neither breathe out slaughter, nor act it with their hands. And his abominations from between his teeth: this may possibly be explanatory of the former, but I think it rather is meant of their abominable sacrifices which they offered and feasted on: so the word in Deuteronomy 7:26, with Deuteronomy 5:25 1 Kings 11:5,7 2 Kings 23:13; and by Hoses, Hosea 9:10. God will punish for these sins, idolatries, and by his destroying the people and cities of those abominations will remove them for ever. He that remaineth, even he; the remnant, even that (so it might be read): if so read, it points out that small select number who escape the sword, and are reserved to be for God, to worship, obey, honour, and love him; such a remnant as Isaiah 4:3, or as Isaiah 17:6, or Isaiah 24:6. Shall be for our God; those few Jews whom God preserved from the rage and cruelty of these bloody idolaters shall be the Lord's peculiar ones. As a governor, for respect and honour which shall be given to them; it is not said they shall be governors, but they shall be as like governors. And Ekron as a Jebusite; the city for the people, and this one city and people for all the other: all the Philistines shall be as Jebusites, servants to the people of God, or slain.