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Jeremiah 47:4
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2 Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, awaters rise bout of the north,
And shall be an overflowing flood;
They shall overflow the land and all that is in it,
The city and those who dwell within;
Then the men shall cry,
And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. 
3 At the anoise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses,
At the rushing of his chariots,
At the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers will not look back for their children,
1Lacking courage, 
4 Because of the day that comes to plunder all the aPhilistines,
To cut off from bTyre and Sidon every helper who remains;
For the Lord shall plunder the Philistines,
cThe remnant of the country of dCaphtor. 
5 aBaldness has come upon Gaza,
bAshkelon is cut off
With the remnant of their valley.
How long will you cut yourself? 
6 “O you asword of the Lord,
How long until you are quiet?
Put yourself up into your scabbard,
Rest and be still! 
7 How can1 it be quiet,
Seeing the Lord has agiven it a charge
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore?
There He has bappointed it.” 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 47:4

every helper—The Philistines, being neighbors to the Phœnicians of Tyre and Sidon, would naturally make common cause with them in the case of invasion. These cities would have no helper left when the Philistines should be destroyed.

Caphtor—the Caphtorim and Philistines both came from Mizraim (Genesis 10:13-14). The Philistines are said to have been delivered by God from Caphtor (Amos 9:7). Perhaps before the time of Moses they dwelt near and were subjugated by the Caphtorim (Deuteronomy 2:23) and subsequently delivered. "The remnant" means here those still left after the Egyptians had attacked Gaza and Palestine; or rather, those left of the Caphtorim after the Chaldeans had attacked them previous to their attack on the Philistines. Some identify Caphtor with Cappadocia; GESENIUS, with Crete (Ezekiel 25:16, Cherethims); KITTO, Cyprus. Between Palestine and Idumea there was a city Caparorsa; and their close connection with Palestine on the one hand, and Egypt (Mizraim, Genesis 10:13-14) on the other hand, makes this locality the most likely.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 47:4:

Jeremiah 47:1
Ezekiel 25:15
Ezekiel 25:16
Amos 1:8
Amos 9:7
Zephaniah 2:5

 

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