Zephaniah 2:4

For; it is time to seek some refuge, high time to seek it in God, for your neighbours, as well as you, shall be destroyed, there shall he no refuge for you among your neighbours. Gaza; a chief city of the Philistines, very strong by its situation, and by art fortified; a frontier toward Egypt, and not full three miles from the sea. Shall be forsaken; when the conquering army of the Chaldeans shall come against it, shall be forsaken either by the flight or captivity of the inhabitants. Ashkelon; another of the strong cities of the Philistines, which fell to the tribe of Dan, and was a maritime town. A desolation; utterly wasted, so the abstract doth imply. They; Babylonians: see Ezekiel 25:15. Shall drive into captivity, cast them out of their own and force them into a strange land. Ashdod; a strong fortified city of Palestina, called in aftertimes Azotus. At the noon-day; it shall be taken by force at noon, or the citizens led away captive in the heat of the day, and under parching heats. Ekron; famous for its infamous idolatry, where Baalzebub was worshipped, the chief seat of devil-worship. Shall be rooted up; utterly extirpated, no more to spring up: see Jeremiah 47:4,5: it shall be as a tree pulled up by the roots; or maimed, as horses that are houghed, as Joshua 11:9.