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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 47:7

How can it be (h) quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.

(h) Meaning, that it is not profitable that the wicked should by any means escape or hinder the Lord when he will take vengeance.

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See also Jeremiah 47:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 47:7. _HOW CAN IT BE QUIET_] This is the _answer_ of the _Sword_. I am the officer of God's judgments, and he has given me a commission against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore; all...

  • 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

    HOW... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._...

  • 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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _How canst thou_ rather, with LXX, Syr., Vulg. _How can it.…_So correct "thee" by mg. _it_, the sea shore, the Philistine and Phoenician coast....

  • 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

    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 peopl...

  • 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

    How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it. HOW CAN IT BE QUIET? Jeremiah, from addressing the sword in the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JERE- miah's reply....

  • 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

    AGAINST THE SEA SHORE. — In the “sea shore,” as in Ezekiel 25:16, we have the term specially appropriate to the territory of the Philistines....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֵ֣יךְ תִּשְׁקֹ֔טִי וַֽ יהוָ֖ה צִוָּה ־לָ֑הּ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS METHINKS the Lord, the Holy Ghost, hath opened to the believer's view sweet instructions in this Chapter. Here we learn, that however long and oppressive the Philistines, in all ages and g...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Some take _it_, ה, _he_, as meaning the land itself; but as it immediately follows, _against Ashkelon _and _against the seashore_, it is better to explain it as above. By the _sea-shore _some understa...

  • 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

    HOW CAN IT BE QUIET,.... There is no reason to believe it will, nor can it be expected that it should; to stop it is impossible, and to request that it might be stopped is in vain: SEEING THE LORD HA...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it._ Ver. 7. _How can it be quiet?_] Heb., How shalt thou be quiet? H...

  • 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

    How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the seashore? Not only Philistia, but also Phenecia was included in the Lord's punishment. THERE HATH HE APPOIN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HOW CAN IT BE: _ Heb._ how canst thou?...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Some make the words of the 6th verse to be the words of the Philistines in their mourning and cutting themselves, crying to God to stop the sword drawn against them, and to return it again into its sc...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 47:7 quiet H8252 (H8799) LORD H3068 charge H6680 (H8765) Ashkelon H831 seashore H3220 H2348 appointed...

  • 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 47:6 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 Samuel 15:3; Amos 3:6; Ezekiel 14:17; Ezekiel 25:16; Isaiah 10:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    How — God lets the prophet know that he had given this sword its commission, and therefore it could not stop 'till Ashkelon and the people on the sea — shore were destroyed by it....

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