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Verse Jeremiah 47:2. _WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH_] _Waters_ is a
common prophetic image for a _multitude of people_. The _north_ here,
as in other places of this prophecy, means _Chaldea_....
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WATERS RISE UP - A metaphor for the assembling of an army (compare the
marginal references).
OUT OF THE NORTH - The Chaldaean army must cross the Euphrates at
Carchemish.
AN OVERFLOWING FLOOD - Or, “...
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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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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._
WATERS. The symbol of the Chaldean armies.
THE NORTH. Compare Jeremiah 46:20.
MEN. Hebrew. _adam_....
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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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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
chapt...
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A. The Overflowing Stream Jeremiah 47:2-4
Borrowing a figure used earlier by Isaiah (Isaiah 8:7) Jeremiah
describes the conqueror of the Philistine as an overflowing flood. The
prophet sees the waters...
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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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AGAINST PHILISTIA
The Chaldean armed men with horses and chariots shall carry terror and
desolation into Philistia and its cities....
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WATERS.. OUT OF THE NORTH] i.e. the Chaldean army....
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BEHOLD, WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH. — The reference to the
north indicates that the invasion which the prophet contemplates is
that of Nebuchadnezzar, not of Pharaoh-necho. For the metaphor of th...
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כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה הִנֵּה ־מַ֜יִם
עֹלִ֤ים...
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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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Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise out of the (b) north, and
shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all
that is in it; the city, and them that dwell in it: then the men...
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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...
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The Prophet, no doubt, wished to remind the Jews that it would only be
a prelude when Gaza was plundered, and that a far more grievous
punishment was impending over that ungodly nation, which had done...
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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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THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, WATERS RISE UP OUT OF THE NORTH,....
Meaning an army of men, which should come in great numbers, and with
great force and rapidity, like an overflowing flood. So the Targu...
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Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and
shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all
that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the m...
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_Behold, waters rise out of the north_ Waters sometimes signify
multitudes of people and nations, Revelation 17:15; sometimes great
and threatening calamities, Psalms 69:1, these waters mean both. By...
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Thus saith the Lord, Behold, waters rise up out of the North, namely,
the Chaldean armies, AND SHALL BE AN OVERFLOWING FLOOD AND SHALL
OVERFLOW THE LAND AND ALL THAT IS THEREIN, THE CITY AND THEM THAT...
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PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....
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ALL THAT IS THEREIN:
_ Heb._ the fulness thereof...
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Calamities and afflictions are often in Scripture set out under the
notion of waters; and as the miseries of Egypt were set out by the
overflowings of their great river Nilus, so the calamities of the...
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Jeremiah 47:2 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 waters H4325 out H5927
(H8802) north H6828 overflowing H7857 ...
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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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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 47:2 Babylon invades Gaza like flood
WATERS that OVERFLOW THE LAND AND ALL THAT FILLS IT.
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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 Corinthians 10:26; 1 Corinthians 10:28; Amos 9:5; Amos 9:6; D