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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...
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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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SWORD OF THE LORD. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:41)....
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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The prayer of the Philistines....
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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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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...
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הֹ֗וי חֶ֚רֶב לַֽ יהוָ֔ה עַד ־אָ֖נָה
לֹ֣א
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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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_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)_...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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,...
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PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....
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PUT UP THYSELF:
_ Heb._ gather thyself...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Jeremiah 47:6 O H1945 sword H2719 LORD H3068 until H3808 quiet H8252
(H8799) up H622 (H8734) scabbard...
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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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_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...
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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 Chronicles 21:27; 2 Samuel 2:26; Deuteronomy 32:41; Deuteronomy
32:42;...
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O thou sword — Perhaps they are the words of the prophet, lamenting
the havock which he made among the Philistines by the Chaldeans....