Jeremiah 47:5

Jeremiah 47:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
• New International Version (NIV)Gaza will shave her head in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. You remnant on the plain, how long will you cut yourselves?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is cut off With the remnant of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

Context of Jeremiah 47:5

3They will hear the sound of their enemies' horses and the loud noises of their chariots. Fathers will not turn back to save their children, because fear has made them weak. 4The time has come when the Lord will destroy all the Philistines. None of them will remain to give help to Tyre and Sidon. The Lord is ready to destroy the Philistines who remain. Those are the people who came from the island of Crete. The people of Gaza will cut the hair off their heads because they are so upset. In Ashkelon, nobody will say a word. You Philistines who live near the sea and are still alive, will you continue to cut your bodies? 6You shout to the Lord, “How long will you attack us with your sword? Please stop killing us! Put your sword away!” 7But the Lord has commanded his sword to kill. So it cannot rest! The Lord has commanded his sword to attack Ashkelon and the people who live on the coast of the sea.’

Jeremiah 47:5 word by word

בָּ֤אָה קָרְחָה֙ אֶל־עַזָּ֔ה נִדְמְתָ֥ה אַשְׁקְל֖וֹן שְׁאֵרִ֣ית עִמְקָ֑ם עַד־מָתַ֖י תִּתְגּוֹדָֽדִי׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Baldnessקׇרְחָהqorchâh qorchâ' · bald spotH7144
• is comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• upon Gazaעַזָּה‛azzâh · GazaH5804
• Ashkelonאַשְׁקְלוֹן'ashqelôn · AshkelonH831
• is cut offדָּמָהdâmâh · to ceaseH1820
• the remnantשְׁאֵרִיתshe'êrîyth · remnantH7611
• of their valleyעֵ֫מֶק‛êmeq · valleyH6010
• how long wilt thou cutגָּדַדgâdad · to cutH1413

Cross-references for Jeremiah 47:5

• Jeremiah 48:37All the men will be very upset. They will cut the hair off their heads and their faces. They will use knives to cut their hands. They will wear sackcloth as their clothes.
• Isaiah 15:2The people in Dibon have gone up to their temple to weep. They have gone up to the altars where they worship their gods. Moab's people are weeping because of what has happened at Nebo and Medeba. They are so upset that they have cut off their hair and their beards.
• Ezekiel 7:18They will wear sackcloth. They will be very afraid. Their faces will show that they are ashamed. They will cut all the hair from their heads.
• Micah 1:16People in Judah, cut off all your hair. Make yourselves bald like vultures, because you will be very sad. Your enemies will take your children away. They will take your children, whom you love so much, away to another country!
• Jeremiah 47:1The Lord gave this message to the prophet Jeremiah before Pharaoh and the army of Egypt attacked Gaza. The Lord said this about the Philistines:
• Amos 1:6The Lord says, ‘The people in Gaza have done more and more wrong things. So I will certainly punish them. They caught my people and they took them away from their homes. They sold them to the people in Edom.
• Zephaniah 2:4Then, the people who have lived in Gaza city and Ashkelon city will not be there. Enemies will also send away the people in Ashdod city at midday. And those enemies will destroy Ekron city.
• Zechariah 9:5The people in Ashkelon city will see it and they will be afraid. The people in Gaza city will see it and they will be afraid. The things that the people in Ekron city hope for will not happen. The king of Gaza will die and there will be no people in Ashkelon any longer.
• Jeremiah 47:4The time has come when the Lord will destroy all the Philistines. None of them will remain to give help to Tyre and Sidon. The Lord is ready to destroy the Philistines who remain. Those are the people who came from the island of Crete.
• Jeremiah 25:20the foreign people who lived in Egypt; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (They were the kings of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the people who were still living in Ashdod);
• Ezekiel 25:16So this is what the Almighty Lord says: Listen! I will use my power to punish the Philistines. I will kill the Kerethites. I will destroy the people who remain on the coast of the sea.
• Jeremiah 16:1The Lord said to me,
• Jeremiah 41:580 men arrived in Mizpah. They had come from their homes in Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria. They brought grain offerings and incense to offer to the Lord in his temple. They had cut off their beards, torn their clothes and cut their skin to show that they were very upset.
• Leviticus 19:28He must not cut his body to remember the dead people. He must not paint his body. I am the Lord your God.
• Leviticus 21:5A priest must not cut all the hair from his head. He must not cut the sides of his beard. He must not cut his body.
• Deuteronomy 14:1You are people who belong to the Lord your God. When someone dies, you are sad. But do not cut your bodies. Do not cut off all the hair from the front of your head.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 47:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Baldness is come upon Gaza - They have cut off their hair in token of deep sorrow and distress. Ashkelon is cut off - Or put to silence; another mark of the deepest sorrow. Ashkelon was one of the five seignories of the Philistines, Gaza was another. The remnant of their valley - Or plain; for the whole land of the Philistines was a vast plain, which extended along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea from Phoenicia to the frontiers of Egypt. The whole of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Baldness - Extreme mourning (see Jeremiah 16:6). Is cut off - Others render, is speechless through grief. With the remnant of their valley - Others, O remnant of their valley, how long wilt thou cut thyself? Their valley is that of Gaza and Ashkelon, the low-lying plain, usually called the Shefelah, which formed the territory of the Philistines. The reading of the Septuagint is remarkable: “the remnant of the Anakim,” which probably would mean Gath, the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Gaza was a major Philistine city. shave their heads: The people expressed their grief by shaving their heads (compare Isaiah 15:2; Micah 1:16). Ashkelon, another Philistine city a few miles north on the coast, would become empty.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Baldness ... cut thyself--Palestine is represented as a female who has torn off her hair and cut her flesh, the heathenish (Le 19:28) token of mourning (Jr 48:37). their valley--the long strip of low plain occupied by the Philistines along the Mediterranean, west of the mountains of Judea. The Septuagint reads Anakim, the remains of whom were settled in those regions (Nu 13:28). Joshua dislodged them so that none were left but in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 47:5

• Ashkelon
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 47

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings