Jeremiah 47:6
O 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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Deuteronomy 32:41If I whet my glittering sworde, and mine hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, and will rewarde them that hate me.
1 Chronicles 21:27And when the Lord had spoken to the Angel, he put vp his sworde againe into his sheath.
Isaiah 10:5O Asshur, the rodde of my wrath: and the staffe in their hands is mine indignation.
Jeremiah 4:21Howe long shall I see the standert, and heare the sounde of the trumpet?
Jeremiah 12:12The destroyers are come vpon all the high places in the wildernesse: for the sworde of the Lord shall deuoure from the one end of the land, euen to the other ende of the lande: no flesh shall haue peace.
Jeremiah 25:27Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Drinke and bee drunken, and spewe and fall, and rise no more, because of the sworde, which I will sende 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 →