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    Jeremiah 47

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    The sword is told to return to its sheath, and immediately explains why retirement is impossible: it has been given another assignment.

    The torrent from the northvv. 1–5

    Jeremiah receives a word about the Philistines, with Gaza already under the shadow of Pharaoh. Then the north sends not a neat little stream but an overflowing torrent, carrying away land, cities, and inhabitants. The noise arrives first: stallions, chariots, wheels. Fathers do not even turn back for their sons. Gaza shaves its head, Ashkelon falls silent, and Tyre and Sidon lose every remaining ally. Caphtor supplies the remnant, and the remnant is now being removed.

    A very short retirementvv. 6–7

    The lament turns oddly intimate. Someone addresses the sword of the LORD as though it might be persuaded to take a rest, find its sheath, and be still. The answer is brisk: a sword commanded against Ashkelon and its coastland does not get to put its feet up. The whole exchange lasts two verses, which is just long enough for the sword to be asked politely and for orders to win.

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    1. Jer 47:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.

    2. Jer 47:2This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail

    3. Jer 47:3at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.

    4. Jer 47:4For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.

    5. Jer 47:5The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

    6. Jer 47:6‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’

    7. Jer 47:7How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”

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    • 5Jeremiah 48:37For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.
    • 4Amos 9:7“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
    • 1Jeremiah 25:20all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
    • 6Jeremiah 12:12Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
    • 6Ezekiel 21:3–5and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
    • 1Genesis 10:19and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
    • 4Deuteronomy 2:23And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)
    • 4Isaiah 20:6And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”
    • 5Micah 1:16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
    • 7Micah 6:9The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.
    • 7Ezekiel 14:17Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,
    • 1Exodus 25:15–17The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed.
    • 1Zechariah 9:5–7Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.
    • 11 Kings 4:24For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates—over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.
    • 2Jeremiah 46:20Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.
    • 2Jeremiah 1:14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.

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