Jeremiah 47:5

Baldenes is come vpon Azzah: Ashkelon is cut vp with the rest of their valleys. Howe long wilt thou thy selfe?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

In Context

4Because of the day that commeth to destroy all the Philistims, and to destroy Tyrus, and Zidon, and all the rest that take their part: for the Lord will destroy the Philistims, the remnant of the yle of Caphtor.

6O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be or thou cease! turne againe into thy scaberd, rest and be still.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:28Ye shall not cut your flesh for the dead, nor make any print of a marke vpon you: I am the Lord,

Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Ye shall not cut yourselues, nor make you any baldnesse betweene your eyes for the dead.

1 Kings 18:28And they cryed loude, and cut them selues as their maner was, with kniues and launcers, till the blood gushed out vpon them.

Jeremiah 16:1The worde of the Lord came also vnto mee, saying,

Jeremiah 25:20And all sortes of people, and all the Kings of the lande of Vz: and all the Kings of the lande of the Philistims, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod:

Jeremiah 47:1The wordes of the Lord that came to Ieremiah the Prophet, against the Philistims, before that Pharaoh smote Azzah.

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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