Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 47:2
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.
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.
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, “...
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ WATERS. The symbol of the Chaldean armies. THE NORTH. Compare Jeremiah 46:20. MEN. Hebrew. _adam_....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WATERS.. OUT OF THE NORTH] i.e. the Chaldean army....
AGAINST PHILISTIA The Chaldean armed men with horses and chariots shall carry terror and desolation into Philistia and its cities....
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...
כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה הִנֵּה ־מַ֜יִם עֹלִ֤ים...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES....
ALL THAT IS THEREIN: _ Heb._ the fulness thereof...
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...
Jeremiah 47:2 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 waters H4325 out H5927 (H8802) north H6828 overflowing H7857 ...
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 47:2 Babylon invades Gaza like flood WATERS that OVERFLOW THE LAND AND ALL THAT FILLS IT. ⇐
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 Corinthians 10:26; 1 Corinthians 10:28; Amos 9:5; Amos 9:6; D