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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 47:6

O thou sword — Perhaps they are the words of the prophet, lamenting the havock which he made among the Philistines by the Chaldeans.

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See also Jeremiah 47:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 47:6. _O THOU SWORD OF THE LORD_] This is a most grand prosopopoeia-a dialogue between the sword of the Lord and the prophet. Nothing can be imagined more sublime. _PUT UP THYSELF INT...

  • 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

    SWORD OF THE LORD. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:41)....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    O THOU SWORD OF THE LORD— It is with great elegance that life is attributed to inanimate things. This dialogue between the sword of the Lord and the prophet, is a very bold, and at the same time a ver...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy s...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The prayer of the Philistines....

  • 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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    O THOU SWORD OF THE LORD... — This is the question and entreaty of the Philistines, “When will there be an end of war?” And the prophet has but one answer: the sword must do its work till it has done...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֹ֗וי חֶ֚רֶב לַֽ יהוָ֔ה עַד ־אָ֖נָה לֹ֣א

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sword. He is moved with pity to see so much carnage, but reflects that such is the will of God. Nabuchodonosor was his sword or scourge. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here Jeremiah turns to address the sword of God; and it is a happy apostrophe. It is very striking and forcible, when the Prophet at one time addresses the land of the Philistines, and at another, the...

  • 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

    O THOU SWORD OF THE LORD,.... For though it was the sword of the Chaldeans, yet being appointed and sent by the Lord, and having a commission from him, and being ordered and directed in his providence...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 6. _O thou sword of the Lord._] So called because whencesoever it cometh...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    O thou sword of the Lord, so the prophet apostrophizes Jehovah's weapon of punishment, HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE THOU BE QUIET? desisting from further slaughter. PUT UP THYSELF INTO THY SCABBARD, REST,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PUT UP THYSELF: _ Heb._ gather thyself...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 47:6 O H1945 sword H2719 LORD H3068 until H3808 quiet H8252 (H8799) up H622 (H8734) scabbard...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still._ WAR OVERRULED FOR GOD’S GLORY Notwithstanding all the boasted improvements of modem times, in knowledge and refinement, wars have not been less...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 47:6 God’s punishing SWORD (Jeremiah 12:12) will not rest until it completes its work against Ashkelon

  • 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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 21:27; 2 Samuel 2:26; Deuteronomy 32:41; Deuteronomy 32:42;...

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