This prophecy is directed against a king named Hadrach, and against Damascus his residence. According to some who have visited Syria, there is to this day, near the desert, a village bearing the name of that king, whose inhabitants assert that formerly a large district about it, that constituted a powerful kingdom, was called by the same name. _For to the Lord_, saith the prophet, _will be the eye of man_, agreeably to what he further declareth, that the extermination of the wicked will precede the turning to God, the eyes of the residue of man. Verse 2. _And also (on) Hamath which borders on her; (on) Tyre, and (on) Sidon, though she be very wise._ Verse 3. _And Tyre did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as dust, and gold as mire of the streets._ The burden of the Lord is also touching Hamath, which was bordering on the former; also Tyre, and Sidon, which thought herself very wise; yet her wisdom availed her nothing, as was also foretold by Ezekiel, chap. xxvii. ver. 32. Verse 4. _Behold the Lord will make her poor, and smite her power in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire._ Verse 5. _Ashkelon shall see it and fear; Gaza also, and she shall be very sorrowful. Ekron also, for he (God) has made ashamed her expectation: and the king shall perish from Gaza: and Ashkelon shall not remain._ Verse 6. _And a foreigner shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut of the pride of the Philistines._ All the foregoing is known from history to have been already accomplished, through the conquests of Alexander the Macedonian; who also destroyed the fleet of Tyre, and smote her power on the sea. Among others also, it is said, Ekron shall be very sorrowful, since her hope was blasted; Tyre, on which she solely confided, being destroyed. Verse 7. _And when I shall have taken away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; then even he shall remain for our God, and he shall be as a chief in Judah, and Ekron like Jebusi._ Now the prophet continues to predict, what is yet to be accomplished, that after their filth and pollution shall have been taken away, a remnant of them also will be to God; each of whom will not be inferior even to a chief in Judah, and Ekron will be in a manner as holy as Jebusi, which is Jerusalem. See Joshua, chap. xviii. ver. 28.