Jeremiah 47:1-4

We shall find this Chapter, as well as the several around it, truly profitable, if we spiritualize it. The Egyptians and Philistines, Moab and Ammon, were all sworn foes to the people of God from the beginning, and so their spawn continues through all ages. But, though the Lord causeth them to act as rods to correct his children with; yet, when he hath finished the correction, he will throw, (as parents do that punish their little ones), the rod away. Here the Lord calls the Philistines to account, and gives some most awful threatenings concerning them. And thus the Lord hath said, he will deal with all the foes of his people, and finally bring them under their feet. Jeremiah 47:1.