Jeremiah 47:1
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh smote Gaza.
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Exodus 25:15The staffs shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
Jeremiah 25:20And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Amos 1:6Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment : because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon shall see it , and fear; Gaza also shall see it , and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 47:1
This chapter reads the Philistines their doom, as the former read the Egyptians theirs and by the same hand, that of Nebuchadnezzar. It is short, but terrible; and Tyre and Zidon, though they lay at some distance from them, come in sharers with them in the destruction here threatened. I. It is foretold that the forces of the northern crowns should come upon them, to their great terror, ver. 1-5 . II. That the war should continue long, and their endeavours to put an end to it should be in vain, ver. 6-7 . Read the whole commentary →