Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 47:7
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.
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.
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...
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...
HOW... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._...
_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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
JERE- miah's reply....
AGAINST PHILISTIA The Chaldean armed men with horses and chariots shall carry terror and desolation into Philistia and its cities....
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....
אֵ֣יךְ תִּשְׁקֹ֔טִי וַֽ יהוָ֖ה צִוָּה ־לָ֑הּ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....
HOW CAN IT BE: _ Heb._ how canst thou?...
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...
Jeremiah 47:7 quiet H8252 (H8799) LORD H3068 charge H6680 (H8765) Ashkelon H831 seashore H3220 H2348 appointed...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 47:6 God’s punishing SWORD (Jeremiah 12:12) will not rest until it completes its work against Ashkelon
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 Samuel 15:3; Amos 3:6; Ezekiel 14:17; Ezekiel 25:16; Isaiah 10:6;...