Jeremiah 47:5
Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace with the remnant of their valley: how long shalt thou cut thyself?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead, neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks: I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 14:1Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, no, make any baldness for the dead;
1 Kings 18:28So they cried with a loud voice, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till they were all covered with blood.
Jeremiah 16:1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Jeremiah 25:20And all in general: all the kings of the land of Ausitis, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus.
Jeremiah 47:1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.
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 →