Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
"The Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir ..." God's providence had also been showered upon these nations.  Paul, in his great missionary solicitation of the Gentiles did not fail to point out that: