Jeremiah 47 - Introduction
_THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PHILISTINES._ _Before Christ 610._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PHILISTINES._ _Before Christ 610._... [ Continue Reading ]
BEFORE THAT PHARAOH SMOTE GAZA— When the country was in seeming quiet and security. The destruction of Gaza probably followed Pharaoh's victories at Megiddo and Carchemish, when Judaea became tributary to him. See 2 Chronicles 35:20; 2 Chronicles 36:3. This prophesy was the more remarkable, as at th... [ Continue Reading ]
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 chapter.... [ Continue Reading ]
AT THE NOISE, &C.— _At the clapping,_ or _clattering sound of the hoofs of his horses,_ &c. _The fathers look not back,_ &c. Every one is so possessed with a sense of his own danger, that he does not think of those who are most nearly and tenderly related to him. Compare chap. Jeremiah 9:4. Micah 7:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REMNANT OF THE COUNTRY OF CAPHTOR— _The remains of the island of the Cappadocians._ Houbigant. The word _island,_ as we have before observed, is often used in Scripture for a _country._ See Deuteronomy 2:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THE REMNANT OF THEIR VALLEY— Gaza and Ashkelon were about twelve miles distant from each other, near the sea, in a valley, of whose beauty and fertility an accurate traveller has given the following description: "We passed this day through the most pregnant and pleasant valley that ever eye beh... [ Continue Reading ]
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 very sublime prosopopoeia, See Bishop Lowth's 13th Prelection. Schultens reads the latter clause, _Retr... [ Continue Reading ]
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 people, and were in peace, and strongly fortified, when this prophesy was delivered, which was before Pha... [ Continue Reading ]