Jeremiah 47:4

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Contextual Overview

¹This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh conquered Gaza. 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 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. 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.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'Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!' ⁷How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland."

Bible Verse Review
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the day: Jeremiah 46:10, Psalms 37:13, Isaiah 10:3, Ezekiel 7:5-7, Ezekiel 7:12, Ezekiel 21:25, Ezekiel 21:29, Hosea 9:7, Luke 21:22

Tyrus: Jeremiah 25:20-22, Isaiah 23:1-18, Ezekiel 26:1 - Ezekiel 28:26, Joel 3:4-8, Amos 1:9, Amos 1:10, Zechariah 9:2-5

every: Job 9:13, Isaiah 20:6, Isaiah 31:8, Ezekiel 30:8

the remnant: Ezekiel 25:16, Amos 1:8, Amos 9:7

country: Heb. isle, Joshua 22:30, Isaiah 20:6

Caphtor: Genesis 10:13, Genesis 10:14, Caphtorim, Deuteronomy 2:23, 1 Chronicles 1:12, Caphthorim, Amos 9:7

Reciprocal: Judges 5:22 - horsehoofs Isaiah 23:4 - I travail Jeremiah 25:22 - Tyrus Jeremiah 47:5 - the remnant Ezekiel 26:2 - Tyrus Ezekiel 28:21 - Zidon Amos 1:6 - Gaza Zechariah 9:5 - Ashkelon

Cross-References

Genesis 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

Genesis 15:13
Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own; they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was still severe in the land.

Genesis 46:34
you are to say, 'Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth-both we and our fathers.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."

Deuteronomy 26:5
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, "My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

Psalms 105:23
Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

Isaiah 52:4
For this is what the Lord GOD says: "At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

Acts 7:6
God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Acts 7:11
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,.... The time appointed by the Lord for their destruction, which should be universal:

[and] to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth; these were cities in Phoenicia, which bordered on the country of the Philistines, who were their auxiliaries in time of distress; but now, being wasted themselves, could give them no help when Nebuchadnezzar attacked them; as he did Tyre particularly, which he besieged thirteen years, and at last destroyed it, and Zidon with it:

for the Lord will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor; these last are not put by way of apposition, as if they were the same with the Philistines, though they were near of kin to them, coming from Casluhim; who were the posterity of Mizraim, as well as Caphtorim, Genesis 10:13; indeed the Philistines are said to be brought from Caphtor, Amos 9:7; being very probably taken captive by them, but rescued from them; and now in confederacy with them, and like to share the same fate as they. The Targum renders it,

"the remnant of the island of the Cappadocians;''

and so the Vulgate Latin version. Some think the Colchi, others that the Cretians, are meant. R. Saadiah by Caphtor understands Damiata, a city in Egypt; which is the same with Pelusium or Sin, the strength of Egypt, Ezekiel 30:15; and it is usual with the Jews w to call this place Caphutkia, the same with Caphtor, they say; and, in Arabic, Damiata.

w Misn. Cetubot, c. 13. sect. 11. & Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because of the day that cometh to spoil - “Because” the day has come “to devastate.”

The Philistines are called Tyre’s remaining (i. e., last) helper, because all besides who could have assisted her have already succumbed to the Chaldaean power. The judgment upon Philistia was in connection with that upon Tyre, and it was fulfilled by expeditions sent out by Nebuchadnezzar under him lieutenants to ravage the country and supply his main army with provisions.

The country of Caphtor - The coastland of Caphtor. The Philistines came from the coast of the Egyptian Delta, and are called “a remnant” because they had been greatly reduced in numbers, partly by the long war of Psammetichus against Ashdod, partly by the capture of Gaza Jeremiah 47:1, and partly by Assyrian invasions.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 47:4. To spoil all the Philistines — These people, of whom there were five seignories, occupied the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, to the south of the Phoenicians.

Tyrus and Zidon — Places sufficiently remarkable both in the Old and New Testament, and in profane history. They belonged to the Phoenicians; and at this time were depending on the succour of their allies, the Philistines. But their expectation was cut off.

The remnant of the country of Caphtor. — Crete, or Cyprus. Some think it was a district along the coast of the Mediterranean, belonging to the Philistines; others, that the Cappadocians are meant.