Jeremiah 47:7
How can you be quiet, since the Lord has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.'"
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1 Samuel 15:3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"
Isaiah 13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isaiah 45:1Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Ezekiel 14:17"Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, 'Sword, go through the land'; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
Ezekiel 21:14"You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.
Amos 3:6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,without the people being afraid?Does disaster happen to a city,unless the Lord has done it?
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 →