Prophecy against Philistia
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the aPhilistines before Pharaoh attacked and conquered the Philistine city of bGaza. Is 14:29-31; Ezek 25:15-17; Amos 1:6-8; Zeph 2:4-7; Zech 9:5-7Jer 25:20; Zech 9:6Gen 10:19; 1 Kin 4:24; Jer 25:20; Amos 1:6; Zeph 2:4 2 Thus says the LORD:“Behold, waters are going to rise out of athe north And become an overflowing streamAnd boverflow the land and all that is in it,The city and those who live in it.Then the people will ccry out,And all the inhabitants of the land of Philistia will wail.Is 14:31; Jer 1:14; 6:22; 46:20, 24Is 8:7, 8Is 15:2-5; Jer 46:12
3 “Because of the noise of the astamping of the hoofs of the war-horses of the Babylonian king,The rattling of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,The fathers have not looked and turned back for their children,So weak are their hands with terrorJudg 5:22; Jer 8:16; Nah 3:24 Because of the day that is comingTo adestroy all the PhilistinesAnd to cut off from bTyre and SidonEvery ally who remains.For the LORD is going to destroy the Philistines,The remnant still surviving of the coastland of 1cCaphtor. Amos 9:7A reference to the island of Crete, believed to be the original homeland of the Philistines.Is 14:31Is 23:5; Jer 25:22; Joel 3:4; Amos 1:9, 10; Zech 9:2-4Gen 10:14; Deut 2:23; Amos 9:75 “aBaldness as a sign of mourning will come on Gaza;bAshkelon will be cut off and ruined.O remnant of their valley,How long will you cgash yourselves as a sign of mourning?Jer 48:37; Mic 1:16Judg 1:18; Jer 25:20; Amos 1:7, 8; Zeph 2:4, 7; Zech 9:5Jer 16:6; 41:56 “O you asword of the LORD,How long will it be before you are quiet?Put yourself into your sheath;Rest and be still.Judg 7:20; Jer 12:12; Ezek 21:3-57 “How can His sword be quietWhen the LORD has agiven it an order?Against Ashkelon and against the whole Philistine seashoreThere He has bassigned it.”Is 10:6; Ezek 14:17Mic 6:9