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Jeremiah 47:5
5The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb. How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, you who remain of Philistia’s power?
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
3Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses, the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels. They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear. 4For the time has come to destroy all the Philistines. The time has come to destroy all the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon. For I, the Lord, will destroy the Philistines, that remnant that came from the island of Crete. The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb. How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, you who remain of Philistia’s power? 6How long will you cry out, ‘Oh, sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you stop killing? Go back into your sheath! Stay there and rest!’ 7But how can it rest when I, the Lord, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.
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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 48:37For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.
- Isaiah 15:2They went up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails. Every head is shaved bare, every beard is trimmed off.
- Ezekiel 7:18They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.
- Micah 1:16Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; shave your foreheads as bald as an eagle, for they are taken from you into exile.
- Jeremiah 47:1The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza.
- Amos 1:6This is what the Lord says: “Because Gaza has committed three crimes – make that four! – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They deported a whole community and sold them to Edom.
- Zephaniah 2:4Indeed, Gaza will be deserted and Ashkelon will become a heap of ruins. Invaders will drive away the people of Ashdod by noon, and Ekron will be overthrown.
- Zechariah 9:5Ashkelon will see and be afraid; Gaza will be in great anguish, as will Ekron, for her hope will have been dried up. Gaza will lose her king, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.
- Jeremiah 47:4For the time has come to destroy all the Philistines. The time has come to destroy all the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon. For I, the Lord, will destroy the Philistines, that remnant that came from the island of Crete.
- Jeremiah 25:20the foreigners living in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines, the people of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, the people who had been left alive from Ashdod;
- Ezekiel 25:16So this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note, I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines. I will kill the Cherethites and destroy those who remain on the seacoast.
- Jeremiah 16:1The Lord said to me,
- Jeremiah 41:5eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves to show they were mourning. They were carrying grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem.
- Leviticus 19:28You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 21:5Priests must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body.
- Deuteronomy 14:1You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
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
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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
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