Jeremiah 47:14

for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I am wearied with my sighing, and rest have I not found. 4 Thus shalt thou say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, what I builded I pull down, and what I planted I pluck up, even this whole land; 5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek not; for behold I am bringing evil on all flesh, saith Jehovah; and I will give thee thy life as a prey in all the places whither thou wilt go. 1 The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning all the nations: 2 Of Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh-Necho, the king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates, at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: 3 Prepare ye the buckler and shield, And move on to battle; 4 Tie the horses, and go up, ye horsemen; Stand in your helmets, Brighten the lances, put on the coats of mail. 5 Why have I seen them broken, turned backward! Even their valiants have been smitten, And by flight have they fled and looked not back; Terror is on every side, saith Jehovah; 6 Let not the swift flee away, Nor the valiant escape: In the north, on the bank of the river Euphrates, Shall they stumble and fall. 7 Who is this that like a river riseth up, Like floods swelling, its waters! 8 Egypt like a river riseth up, And like floods swelling, its waters; For he saith, I will go up and cover the land, I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.

It begins with a general title to prophecies in this and the five following chapters, Jeremiah 46:1; then follows a particular prophecy of the route of Pharaoh's army; of the place where, and time when, Jeremiah 46:2; the preparations of the Egyptians for the battle, with a variety of warlike instruments, Jeremiah 46:3; the consternation, flight, and destruction of them, Jeremiah 46:5; notwithstanding their confidence of getting the victory, Jeremiah 46:7; the reason of it, because it was the day of the Lord's vengeance on them, and therefore their ruin was inevitable, Jeremiah 46:10; the consequence of which was shame and confusion, Jeremiah 46:12; next follows another prophecy of the destruction of the land itself by Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah 46:13; the places that should be destroyed, Jeremiah 46:14; the multitude that should be slain, Jeremiah 46:15; a description of the calamity; the instrument, manner, and consequence of it, Jeremiah 46:20; the certainty of it, Jeremiah 46:18; and the whole is closed with a promise of the return of the Jews, and of their salvation; though they should not be without divine corrections, Jeremiah 46:27. Ver. 1. The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles.

that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands; 4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? 6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it. As the Egyptians had often proved false friends, so the Philistines had always been sworn enemies, to the Israel of God, and the more dangerous and vexatious for their being such near neighbours to them.

rds of the prophet, lamenting the havoc which he by the eye of the prophecy saw was like to be made amongst the Philistines by the Chaldeans (for good men are affected with the miseries even of the worst of men). The latter verse must be expounded according to the former; for if the words of the former verse be understood as the words of the Philistines, those of this verse must be understood as the words of the prophet putting them out of hopes of the sword’s stopping, because what it did was by commission from God, which it must execute. If the words of the former verse be to be understood as the prophet’s words, the words of this verse are either the prophet’s words correcting himself, and concluding that this sword could not be quiet, because it was edge d by God himself, who had given it his commission, which it must execute; or the words of God, letting the prophet know that he had given this sword its commission, and therefore it could not stop till Ashkelon and the people on the sea-shore were destroyed by it. ## Jeremiah 48:1 JEREMIAH CHAPTER 48 The judgment of Moab, Jer_48:1-6, for their pride, Jer_48:7-10; for their security and human confidence, Jer_48:11-25; especially for their contempt of God, and insolence towards his people, Jer_48:26-46. Their restoration, Jer_48:47. ## The prophet having, Jer 46 ; denounced God’s judgment against Egypt, and against the Philistines, Jer 47 , i n this chapter he cometh to do the like agains

18 ,19 . ## Jeremiah 46:14 Concerning these three cities of Egypt, See Poole " Jer_44:1 " : the meaning is, Publish this prophecy over all the land of Egypt. Or perhaps these three were the chief places whither the Jews that went with Johanan the son of Kareah, &c. went, and where they fixed themselves: many more places in Egypt are named by Ezekiel, Jer_30:14, &c. ## Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee; look to yourselves, and prepare yourselves for battle, for the nations are destroyed round about you, (so it is in the Hebrew,) and you have reason to expect that the sword should come next into your countries. Jeremiah 46:15 The prophet first propoundeth a question, then returneth answer to himself. Egypt was full of valiant men, yet, saith the prophet, they shall be swept away, or broken down, as fruit or grass is beaten down with a violent storm of hail (so the word is used

Ten years later, in 701, Ashkelon and Ekron joined the Phoenician cities and Judah, in revolting from Sennacherib, and were both punished by the Assyrian king[118]. It seems, however, that though the power of the Philistines must have been seriously crippled by these blows, it was by no means destroyed: the kings of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ekron, and Ashdod are all named as tributary to Esarhaddon and Asshurbanipal ( K.A.T [119][120] 356); oracles are uttered against the Philistines by several of the later prophets; their cities are mentioned as places of importance in the times of Nehemiah ( Nehemiah 4:7 , Nehemiah 13:23 f.) and the Maccabees. The passages in which other prophets foretell disaster for the Philistines—chiefly at the hands of the Assyrians or the Chaldaeans—should be compared: see Isaiah 11:14 (a picture of united Israel’s successes against them in the ideal future), Isaiah 14:29-32 ; Jeremiah 25:20 ; Jeremiah 47; Zephaniah 2:4-7 ; Ezekiel 25:15-17 ; Zechariah 9:5-7 . [116] .A.T. … Eb. Schrader, Die Keilinschriften und das A. T. , ed. 2, 1883 (translated under the title The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the O. T . 1885, 1888). The references are to the pagination of the German, which is given on the margin of the English translation. [117] … Eb. Schrader, Die Keilinschriften und das A. T. , ed. 2, 1883 (translated under the title The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the O. T . 1885, 1888).

Verse 16. - The Cherethims . The name appears, coupled with the Philistines, in Zephaniah 2:5 , and has been supposed to be connected with Crete as the region from which they came, or in which they afterwards settled. By many writers both names are identified with the Cherethites and Pelethites, who appear as David's body-guard in 2 Samuel 8:18 ; 2 Samuel 15:18 , et al. , and who are supposed to represent a body of mercenary or subject troops formed out of the two nations. Both Ezekiel and Zephaniah connect the Cherethims with a paronomasia, the verb I will cut off being almost identical in sound with it. (For other prophecies, see Isaiah 11:14 ; Isaiah 14:29-31 ; Jeremiah 47 ; Joel 3:4 ; Amos 1:6-8 ; Zephaniah 2:4-7 ; Zechariah 9:4-7 .) Ezekiel 25:16

16 . the Cherethims ] the Cherethites. The name was given to the inhabitants of the Philistine coast, Zephaniah 2:5 , “woe to the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites … the land of the Philistines.” Cf. 1 Samuel 30:14 ; 2 Samuel 8:18 ; Jeremiah 47:4 . the remnant ] Cf. Amos 1:8 ; Isaiah 14:30 ; Zephaniah 1:4 .

Whereas Pharaoh shall not come to battle at the time appointed, notwithstanding his boasts, Nebuchadnezzar shall come according to the prediction of the King, who has all hosts in His power, however ye Egyptians may despise the prediction. 19. furnish thyself —literally, "make for thyself vessels" (namely, to contain food and other necessaries for the journey) for captivity. daughter —so in Jeremiah 46:11. dwelling in Egypt —that is, the inhabitants of Egypt, the Egyptians, represented as the daughter of Egypt (Jeremiah 48:18; 2 Kings 19:21). "Dwelling" implies that they thought themselves to be securely fixed in their habitations beyond the reach of invasion. 20. heifer —wanton, like a fat, untamed heifer (Hosea 10:11). Appropriate to Egypt, where Apis was worshipped under the form of a fair bull marked with spots. destruction —that is, a destroyer: Nebuchadnezzar. Vulgate translates, "a goader," answering to the metaphor, "one who will goad the heifer " and tame her. The Arabic idiom favors this [R OSENMULLER ]. cometh … cometh —The repetition implies, it cometh surely and quickly (Psalms 96:13). ## out of the north —(See on Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 47:2). 21. Translate, "Also her hired men (mercenary soldiers, Jeremiah 46:9, 16), who are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks, even they also are turned back," that is, shall turn their backs to flee. The same image, "heifer … bullocks" (Jeremiah 46:20, 21), is applied to Egypt's foreign mercenaries, as to herself.

Verse 28. - And they cried aloud [Heb. in a great voice , as above. It was not that they took Elijah's words au serieux , but his scorn led them to redouble their efforts, if only to testify their faith in their god. The frantic cries of the Greek Easter (see Porter, 1:168; Conder, 176-178) in Jerusalem, the prayers of the pilgrims for the descent of the holy fire, may help us to realize the scene here described], and cut themselves [cf. Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Jeremiah 16:6 ; Jeremiah 41:5 ; Jeremiah 47:5 ] after their manner [Keil quotes from Movers, Phoniz. 1. pp. 682-83, a description of the religious dances offered to the Dea Syria . "A discordant howling opens the scene. Then they rush wildly about in perfect confusion, with their heads bowed down to the ground, but always revolving in circles, so that the loosened hair drags through the mire; then they begin to bite their arms, and end with cutting themselves with the two-edged swords which they are in the habit of carrying. A new scene then opens. One of them, who surpasses all the rest in frenzy, begins to prophesy with sighs and groans," etc. In the "Contemporary Review," vol. 27, pp. 371 sqq., Bishop Caldwell has graphically described the devil dances of Southern India - a description which may be read with profit in this connexion.