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About this chapterA brief oracle concerns the Philistines, especially Gaza and Ashkelon, who lay in the path of an invader from the north. The waters rising in the north become a flood that sweeps over the land. The noise of chariots and galloping horses is so terrifying that fathers do not turn back for their children, their hands limp with fear. The Lord is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from Caphtor. Gaza shaves her head in mourning and Ashkelon is silenced. The closing image is of the sword of the Lord that cannot rest until the Lord gives it orders.

A brief oracle concerns the Philistines, especially Gaza and Ashkelon, who lay in the path of an invader from the north. The waters rising in the north become a flood that sweeps over the land. The noise of chariots and galloping horses is so terrifying that fathers do not turn back for their children, their hands limp with fear. The Lord is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from Caphtor. Gaza shaves her head in mourning and Ashkelon is silenced. The closing image is of the sword of the Lord that cannot rest until the Lord gives it orders.

Themes

  • Flood from the north
  • Terror of invasion
  • The Lord's sword

Key verses

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Jeremiah 47

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1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down 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.”
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