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Jeremiah 47:6

O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

7How is it possible for it to be quiet, seeing that the Lord has given it orders? against Ashkelon and against the sea-land he has given it directions.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:41If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

1 Chronicles 21:27Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.

Isaiah 10:5Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

Jeremiah 4:21How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

Jeremiah 12:12Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

Jeremiah 25:27And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 47:2-7

The Judgment of the Philistines. ( b. c. 588.) 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2 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 men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his… Read the whole commentary →

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