Zephaniah 2:5

Zephaniah announced woe on the Philistines because destruction was coming on them. They inhabited the Mediterranean seacoast, and they had come from Crete (cf. 1 Samuel 30:14; 2 Samuel 8:18; 2 Samuel 20:23; 1 Chronicles 18:17; Ezekiel 25:16). Yahweh’s powerful word was all it took to afflict them, and it would come against them. He promised to destroy them and their land, the coastal plain of Canaan, so no one would live there any longer. Pharaoh Neco II of Egypt (609-594 B.C.) initially fulfilled this prophecy (cf. Jeremiah 47).