Isaiah 11:14

14. But, fourthly, how about Israel and unbrotherly tribes and nomads around?

But they Undivided Ephraim and Judah, now one under Messiah.

Shall fly From the land of exile, or even from Central Zion, whither in spiritual union they have in figure betaken themselves.

Upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west “Shoulders” either hills fronting the Philistine plain, or frontier regions from Zion as the starting-point for activity seaward.

Spoil them of the east Symbolical words taken from David’s conquests over Ishmaelites, Midianites, etc.; and the same symbols apply as over Edom, Moab, and Ammon. Spiritual conquests alone are intended. 2 Samuel 8:11. The prophet figures here the supremacy of the future spiritually united Israel and Judah over all its old enemies. As to geographical notes, Edom lay south of Judah, between the Dead and the Red seas; Moab, east of the Dead Sea and lower Jordan; Ammon, east of Judea, between the Jabbok and the Arnon, and Philistia in the southwest, on the Mediterranean.