Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 47:5
The remnant — Those who lived in the valleys near Ashkelon. But thyself — Why will you afflict yourselves, when all your mourning will do you no good.
The remnant — Those who lived in the valleys near Ashkelon. But thyself — Why will you afflict yourselves, when all your mourning will do you no good.
Verse Jeremiah 47:5. _BALDNESS IS COME UPON GAZA_] They have _cut off their_ _hair_ in token of deep sorrow and distress. _ASHKELON IS CUT OFF_] Or _put to silence_; another mark of the deepest sorro...
BALDNESS - Extreme mourning (see Jeremiah 16:6). IS CUT OFF - Others render, is speechless through grief. WITH THE REMNANT OF THEIR VALLEY - Others, O remnant of their valley, how long wilt thou cut...
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...
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...
BALDNESS. the sign of mourning. Compare Jeremiah 16:6. ASHKELON. Now _'Aakalan._ THEIR VALLEY. Septuagint reads "Anakim" instead of _'imkam._...
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...
_Baldness_ in token of mourning. See on Jeremiah 16:6. _Gaza_ important from its situation at the junction of the roads for caravans from Egypt and Arabia. _Ashkelon_ mentioned again in Jeremiah 47:7...
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 follow...
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...
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...
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? BALDNESS IS COME UPON GAZA ... HOW LONG WILT THOU CUT THYSELF? Palestine is represe...
BALDNESS] in token of mourning: cp. Jeremiah 48:37. CUT THYSELF] see on Jeremiah 16:6....
AGAINST PHILISTIA The Chaldean armed men with horses and chariots shall carry terror and desolation into Philistia and its cities....
BALDNESS IS COME UPON GAZA. — The baldness is the outward sign of extremest mourning (Jeremiah 48:37; Isaiah 15:2), perhaps, also, of extremest desolation (Isaiah 7:20). ASHKELON IS CUT OFF... — Bette...
בָּ֤אָה קָרְחָה֙ אֶל ־עַזָּ֔ה נִדְמְתָ֥ה אַשְׁקְלֹ֖ון...
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...
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...
(f) Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of their valley: how long wilt (g) thou cut thyself? (f) They who shaved their heads for sorrow and heaviness. (g) As the heath...
Baldness, the sign of mourning, (Calmet) or captivity. (Haydock) --- Peace. Hebrew, "shall be destroyed." Septuagint, "cast away." She has afforded no assistance to Gaza. (Haydock) --- Valley, along t...
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...
The Prophet returns again to what is figurative, that he might more fully illustrate his prophecy, and more powerfully move the Jews. Now by _baldness _he points out a sign of mourning; for they were...
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...
BALDNESS IS COME UPON GAZA,.... The Targum is, "vengeance is come to the inhabitants of Gaza.'' It is become like a man whose hair is fallen from his head, or is clean shaved off; its houses were de...
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? Ver. 5. _Baldness is come upon Gaza,_] _i.e., _ Extreme grief, which might have bee...
_Baldness is come upon Gaza; how long wilt thou cut thyself_, &c. Under great calamities, and for the loss of any near kindred, it was usual for men to express their grief by shaving their heads, and...
PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....
Baldness is come upon Gaza, one of the city-states of Philistia, due to tearing out the hair because of great grief; ASHKELON, another of the Philistine cities, IS CUT OFF WITH THE REMNANT OF THEIR VA...
Both GAZA and ASHKELON were two principal cities belonging to the Philistines taken by Judah, JUDGES 1:18; we read of them 1 SAMUEL 6:17; both Amos, Zephaniah, and Zechariah prophesied their ruin, Amo...
Jeremiah 47:5 Baldness H7144 come H935 (H8804) Gaza H5804 Ashkelon H831 off H1820 (H8738) remnant H7611 valley...
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...
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...
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...
_How long wilt thou cut thyself?_ THE TENDER INQUIRY OF A FRIEND Travellers in the East tell us that among the most melancholy scenes they witness is the following:--Men inflict upon themselves very...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 47:5 BALDNESS means either that Gaza’s citizens shaved their heads as part of a mourning ritual (see Isaiah 22:12;...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 18:28; Amos 1:6; Deuteronomy 14:1; Ezekiel 25:16; Ezekiel 7:18