And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Ver. 6. But a bastard shall dwell at Ashdod] Perhaps he meaneth Alexander; who was a bastard, by his mother Olympia's confession. The Greek here hath αλλογενης, a stranger, an alien, or one of another generation, as the Greeks under Alexander, and afterwards the Jews under the Maccabees. Whence the Chaldee turns this text thus; The house of Israel shall dwell in Ashdod, and shall be there as strangers which have no father. In the Acts we find that the Jews were scattered up and down Palestine, and some found at Azotus, or Ashdod, Acts 8:40 .
And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines] That is, their wealth, strength, and whatsoever else they gloried in, and grew insolent, and injurious to the Church.