Zechariah 9:6-7, a remnant for our God

 Zechariah 9:6-7 (NASB)
6 And a people of mixed origins will live in Ashdod, And I will eliminate the pride of the Philistines.
7 And I will remove their blood from their mouth
And their detestable things from between their teeth.
Then they also will be a remnant for our God, And be like a clan in Judah,
And Ekron will be like a Jebusite.

• even he shall be for our God—“even he,” like Hamath, Damascus, Tyre, &c., which, these words imply, shall also be converted to God (Is 56:3, “son of the stranger joined himself to the Lord”) [ROSENMULLER]. The “even,” however, may mean, Besides the Hebrews, “even” the Philistine shall worship Jehovah (so Isaiah 56:8) [MAURER].

• he shall be as a governor in Judah—On the conversion of the Philistine prince, he shall have the same dignity “in Judah as a governor”; there shall be no distinction [HENDERSON]. The Philistine princes with their respective states shall equally belong to the Jews’ communion, as if they were among the “governors” of states “in Judah” [MAURER].  from: Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, vol. 1 (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), 727.

• The Philistines themselves would be cleansed from idolatry, and they would dwell as a clan in Israel. Ekron would be like the Jebusites in the sense that they would live among the people of Israel as loyal, peaceful citizens.  from: William MacDonald, Believer’s Bible Commentary: Old and New Testaments, ed. Arthur Farstad (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995), 1165.