Jeremiah 47:4

The text is difficult, and may be corrupt. As Co. points out, the Hebrew for "that remaineth" is rather a survivor, one who has escaped. Moreover, he remarks that we have no reason from other sources to suppose that, as the v. implies, the Philistines were the chief allies of the Phoenicians ("Tyre and Zidon"). He therefore reads (changing slightly the MT.) "all the remnant of their excellency." Both Gi. and Co. make the next clause ("for … Philistines") a gloss. The LXX support this view, and render the last clause of the v. "and the Lord will destroy the remnant of the islands," omitting "Caphtor."

every helper that remaineth in other words the Philistines, the other helpers having been already cut off.

the remnant of the isle of Caphtor the few of the Philistine nation that still survive after the wars with Egypt and Assyria, from which they had long suffered. Caphtor is spoken of also in Deuteronomy 2:23; Amos 9:7, as the original abode of the Philistines. It is probably to be identified with Crete.

isle For mg. sea coastSee on Jeremiah 25:22.