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Verse Jeremiah 47:7. _HOW CAN IT BE QUIET_] This is the _answer_ of
the _Sword_. I am the officer of God's judgments, and he has given me
a commission against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore; all...
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CHAPTER 47
Concerning the Philistines
This brief chapter is concerning the inhabitants of the borderland of
Canaan, called Philistia. This announced judgment was fulfilled a
short time after it was...
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JEREMIAH 47. PHILISTIA. Instead of Jeremiah 47:1, LXX has simply On
the Philistines, which is probably original. The waters rising from
the north (Jeremiah 47:2) would suggest Babylon, not Egypt, as t...
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HOW... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._...
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_How canst thou_ rather, with LXX, Syr., Vulg. _How can it.…_So
correct "thee" by mg. _it_, the sea shore, the Philistine and
Phoenician coast....
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These _vv_. have been suspected, but on insufficient (partly metrical)
grounds. They contain (a) the cry of the Philistines for mercy, (_b_)
the prophet's reply....
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The Prophecy regarding Philistia
2. _waters rise up_ In Jeremiah 46:8 the same figure was used for an
army. Cp. Isaiah 8:7 (on which Co. thinks this _v_. to be based),
where the Assyrian army is like...
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DISCOURSE: 1085
THE MEANS OF TERMINATING WAR
Jeremiah 47:6. _O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou
be quiet? Put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still. How
can it be quiet...
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SEA-SHORE— Sea-coast.
REFLECTIONS.—The Philistines had been the inveterate enemies of
Israel: they had received many a severe check in the days of David;
but seem to have become a very powerful peopl...
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III. AN ORACLE AGAINST THE PHILISTINE Jeremiah 47:1-7
TRANSLATION
(1) The word of the LORD which came unto Jeremiah concerning the
Philistine before Pharaoh smote Gaza. (2) Thus says the LORD: Behold...
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B. The Devouring Sword Jeremiah 47:5-7
In the second stanza of the poem the figure changes from an
overflowing stream to a devouring sword. The sword of the Lord creates
havoc in Philistia. Gaza and A...
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How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against
Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
HOW CAN IT BE QUIET? Jeremiah, from addressing the sword in the...
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JERE- miah's reply....
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AGAINST PHILISTIA
The Chaldean armed men with horses and chariots shall carry terror and
desolation into Philistia and its cities....
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AGAINST THE SEA SHORE. — In the “sea shore,” as in Ezekiel
25:16, we have the term specially appropriate to the territory of the
Philistines....
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אֵ֣יךְ תִּשְׁקֹ֔טִי וַֽ יהוָ֖ה צִוָּה
־לָ֑הּ...
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CHAPTER XVIII
THE PHILISTINES
Jeremiah 47:1
"O sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up
thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still."- Jeremiah 47:6
ACCORDING to the title...
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In this brief chapter we find the word concerning the Philistines. It
consists of foretelling a scourge coming against them from the north
which would utterly break their power. In figurative language...
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How can it be (h) quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge
against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed
it.
(h) Meaning, that it is not profitable that the wicked should...
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REFLECTIONS
METHINKS the Lord, the Holy Ghost, hath opened to the believer's view
sweet instructions in this Chapter. Here we learn, that however long
and oppressive the Philistines, in all ages and g...
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I be g the Reader to remark with me, the beauty, as well as the power
of this scripture. Calling to the sword to be quiet, is a fine image,
to express the feelings of the Prophet, in the view of slaug...
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Some take _it_, ה, _he_, as meaning the land itself; but as it
immediately follows, _against Ashkelon _and _against the seashore_, it
is better to explain it as above.
By the _sea-shore _some understa...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51.
Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already
mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies
against t...
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HOW CAN IT BE QUIET,.... There is no reason to believe it will, nor
can it be expected that it should; to stop it is impossible, and to
request that it might be stopped is in vain:
SEEING THE LORD HA...
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_O thou sword of the Lord_ By the _sword of the Lord_, war is here
intended, with which, as a great instrument of calamity and
destruction, God punishes the crimes of his enemies, and pleads the
cause...
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How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against
Ashkelon and against the seashore? Not only Philistia, but also
Phenecia was included in the Lord's punishment. THERE HATH HE
APPOIN...
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PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....
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HOW CAN IT BE:
_ Heb._ how canst thou?...
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Some make the words of the 6th verse to be the words of the
Philistines in their mourning and cutting themselves, crying to God to
stop the sword drawn against them, and to return it again into its
sc...
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Jeremiah 47:7 quiet H8252 (H8799) LORD H3068 charge H6680 (H8765)
Ashkelon H831 seashore H3220 H2348 appointed...
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C). PROPHECY CONCERNING PHILISTIA AND ITS GREAT CITIES INCLUDING
WITHIN IT A WORD AGAINST TYRE AND SIDON (JEREMIAH 47:1).
To the west of Judah was Philistia, with its great semi-independent
cities suc...
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CONTENTS: Prophecies against Philistia and Tyre and Sidon.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The sword of the Word, as it is charged from the Lord of
Hosts to punish the crimes of nations, cann...
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Jeremiah 47:1. _Before that Pharaoh smote Gaza._ This is thought to be
Pharaoh- necho; but critics are not agreed as to the time of the war,
whether it was after the defeat of Josiah, when he was retu...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 47:6 God’s punishing SWORD (Jeremiah
12:12) will not rest until it completes its work against Ashkelon
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE
CHAPTER.—“Before that Pharaoh smote Gaza” (Jeremiah 47:1); but
_which_ Pharaoh? Pharaoh-_Necho_, on his return from defeating Josiah
at Megiddo (2 C...
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PROPHECY ON THE PHILISTINES.
EXPOSITION
It is clear from the contents of the prophecy (and the inference is
thoroughly confirmed by its position) that it was written after the
battle of Carchemish, w...
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In chapter 47 he takes now his prophecies against the Philistines. And
the city of Gaza was already taken by the Pharaoh.
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
Philistine...
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1 Samuel 15:3; Amos 3:6; Ezekiel 14:17; Ezekiel 25:16; Isaiah 10:6;...
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How — God lets the prophet know that he had given this sword its
commission, and therefore it could not stop 'till Ashkelon and the
people on the sea — shore were destroyed by it....