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Text -- Jeremiah 47:1-7 (NET)
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Judgment on the Philistine Cities
47:1 The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza .
47:2 “Look ! Enemies are gathering in the north like water rising in a river. They will be like an overflowing stream . They will overwhelm the whole country and everything in it like a flood. They will overwhelm the cities and their inhabitants . People will cry out in alarm. Everyone living in the country will cry out in pain .
47:3 Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses , the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels . They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear .
47:4 For the time has come to destroy all the Philistines . The time has come to destroy all the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon . For I, the Lord , will destroy the Philistines , that remnant that came from the island of Crete .
47:5 The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb . How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, you who remain of Philistia’s power ?
47:6 How long will you cry out, ‘Oh , sword of the Lord , how long will it be before you stop killing ? Go back into your sheath ! Stay there and rest !’
47:7 But how can it rest when I, the Lord , have given it orders ? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Philistines |
JEREMIAH (2) |
Ashkelon |
Baldness |
Prophecy |
War |
Horse |
Gaza |
Chariot |
WAR; WARFARE |
CAPHTOR, CAPHTORIM |
SHORE |
Pharaoh |
Tyre |
Sidon |
Remnant |
Caphtorim |
TYRUS |
CUTTINGS IN THE FLESH |
Zidon |
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NET Notes: Jer 47:1 The precise dating of this prophecy is uncertain. Several proposals have been suggested, the most likely of which is that the prophecy was delivered i...
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NET Notes: Jer 47:2 Heb “Behold! Waters are rising from the north.” The metaphor of enemy armies compared to overflowing water is seen also in Isa 8:8-9 (Assy...
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NET Notes: Jer 47:3 Heb “From the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, from the rattling of his chariots at the rumbling of their wheels, fathers wi...
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NET Notes: Jer 47:4 All the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon and that remnant that came from the island of Crete appear to be two qualifying phrases that refer to the...
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NET Notes: Jer 47:5 Or “you who are left alive on the Philistine plain.” Or “you who remain of the Anakim.” The translation follows the suggestion...
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NET Notes: Jer 47:6 The passage is highly figurative. The sword of the Lord, which is itself a figure of the destructive agency of the enemy armies, is here addressed as ...
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