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Jeremiah 47:2

1 Corinthians 10:26; 1 Corinthians 10:28; Amos 9:5; Amos 9:6; Daniel 11:22; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 15:8; Isaiah 22:1; Isaiah 22:4; Isaiah 22:5; Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 59:19; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8; James 5:1; Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 46:13; Jeremiah 46:20; Jeremiah 46:6; Jeremiah 46:7; Jeremiah 46:8; Jeremiah 48:3; Jeremiah 48:39; Jeremiah 8:16; Nahum 1:8; Psalms 24:1; Psalms 50:12; Psalms 96:11; Psalms 98:7; Revelation 12:15; Revelation 12:16; Revelation 17:1; Revelation 17:15; Zephaniah 1:10; Zephaniah 1:11

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See also Jeremiah 47:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 47:2. _WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH_] _Waters_ is a common prophetic image for a _multitude of people_. The _north_ here, as in other places of this prophecy, means _Chaldea_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WATERS RISE UP - A metaphor for the assembling of an army (compare the marginal references). OUT OF THE NORTH - The Chaldaean army must cross the Euphrates at Carchemish. AN OVERFLOWING FLOOD - Or, “...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ WATERS. The symbol of the Chaldean armies. THE NORTH. Compare Jeremiah 46:20. MEN. Hebrew. _adam_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH— "Behold the army of Nebuchadrezzar, which, bursting forth like a deluge, shall cover the land of the Philistines." See the 7th and 8th verses of the last chapt...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A. The Overflowing Stream Jeremiah 47:2-4 Borrowing a figure used earlier by Isaiah (Isaiah 8:7) Jeremiah describes the conqueror of the Philistine as an overflowing flood. The prophet sees the waters...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AGAINST PHILISTIA The Chaldean armed men with horses and chariots shall carry terror and desolation into Philistia and its cities....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WATERS.. OUT OF THE NORTH] i.e. the Chaldean army....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH. — The reference to the north indicates that the invasion which the prophet contemplates is that of Nebuchadnezzar, not of Pharaoh-necho. For the metaphor of th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה הִנֵּה ־מַ֜יִם עֹלִ֤ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise out of the (b) north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is in it; the city, and them that dwell in it: then the men...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We shall find this Chapter, as well as the several around it, truly profitable, if we spiritualize it. The Egyptians and Philistines, Moab and Ammon, were all sworn foes to the people of God from the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet, no doubt, wished to remind the Jews that it would only be a prelude when Gaza was plundered, and that a far more grievous punishment was impending over that ungodly nation, which had done...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH,.... Meaning an army of men, which should come in great numbers, and with great force and rapidity, like an overflowing flood. So the Targu...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the m...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, waters rise out of the north_ Waters sometimes signify multitudes of people and nations, Revelation 17:15; sometimes great and threatening calamities, Psalms 69:1, these waters mean both. By...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord, Behold, waters rise up out of the North, namely, the Chaldean armies, AND SHALL BE AN OVERFLOWING FLOOD AND SHALL OVERFLOW THE LAND AND ALL THAT IS THEREIN, THE CITY AND THEM THAT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ALL THAT IS THEREIN: _ Heb._ the fulness thereof...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Calamities and afflictions are often in Scripture set out under the notion of waters; and as the miseries of Egypt were set out by the overflowings of their great river Nilus, so the calamities of the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 47:2 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 waters H4325 out H5927 (H8802) north H6828 overflowing H7857 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 47:2 Babylon invades Gaza like flood WATERS that OVERFLOW THE LAND AND ALL THAT FILLS IT. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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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