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<p id="Chapter47" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 47
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<p id="Jer47_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',47,'1-7');">Jer 47:1-7</a>. PROPHECY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES.
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<p><b>1.</b> <i>Pharaoh-necho</i> probably smote Gaza on his return after defeating Josiah at Megiddo (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',35,20);">2Ch 35:20</a>) [GROTIUS]. Or, <i>Pharaoh-hophra</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',37,5,7);">Jer 37:5, 7</a>) is intended: probably on his return from his fruitless attempt to save Jerusalem from the Chaldeans, he smote Gaza in order that his expedition might not be thought altogether in vain [CALVIN] (<a onclick="return mV('Amo',1,6,7);">Amo 1:6-7</a>).
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<p id="Jer47_2"><b>2. waters</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',8,7);">Isa 8:7</a>). The Chaldeans from the north are compared to the overwhelming waters of their own Euphrates. The smiting of Gaza was to be only the prelude of a greater disaster to the Philistines. Nebuzara-dan was left by Nebuchadnezzar, after he had taken Jerusalem, to subdue the rest of the adjoining cities and country.
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<p id="Jer47_3"><b>3.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',4,29);">Jer 4:29</a>).
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<br><br><b>fathers...not look back to...children</b>—Each shall think only of his own safety, not even the fathers regarding their own children. So desperate shall be the calamity that men shall divest themselves of the natural affections.
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<br><br><b>for feebleness of hands</b>—The hands, the principal instruments of action, shall have lost all power; their whole hope shall be in their feet.
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<p id="Jer47_4"><b>4. every helper</b>—The Philistines, being neighbors to the Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon, would naturally make common cause with them in the case of invasion. These cities would have no <i>helper</i> left when the Philistines should be destroyed.
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<br><br><b>Caphtor</b>—the Caphtorim and Philistines both came from Mizraim (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',10,13,14);">Gen 10:13-14</a>). The Philistines are said to have been delivered by God from Caphtor (<a onclick="return mV('Amo',9,7);">Amo 9:7</a>). Perhaps before the time of Moses they dwelt near and were subjugated by the Caphtorim (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',2,23);">Deu 2:23</a>) 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 (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',25,16);">Eze 25:16</a>, 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, <a onclick="return mV('Gen',10,13-14);">Gen 10:13-14</a>) on the other hand, makes this locality the most likely.
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<p id="Jer47_5"><b>5. Baldness...cut thyself</b>—Palestine is represented as a female who has torn off her hair and cut her flesh, the heathenish (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',19,28);">Lev 19:28</a>) token of mourning (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',48,37);">Jer 48:37</a>).
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<br><br><b>their valley</b>—the long strip of low plain occupied by the Philistines along the Mediterranean, west of the mountains of Judea. The <i>Septuagint</i> reads <i>Anakim,</i> the remains of whom were settled in those regions (<a onclick="return mV('Num',13,28);">Num 13:28</a>). Joshua dislodged them so that none were left but in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod (<a onclick="return mV('Jos',11,21,22);">Jos 11:21-22</a>). But the parallel (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',47,7);">Jer 47:7</a>), "Ashkelon...the <i>sea-shore,</i>" established <i>English Version</i> here, "Ashkelon...their <i>valley.</i>"
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<p id="Jer47_6"><b>6.</b> Jeremiah, in the person of the Philistines afflicting themselves (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',47,5);">Jer 47:5</a>), apostrophizes the "sword of the Lord," entreating mercy (compare <a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,41);">Deu 32:41</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',21,'3-5',9,10);">Eze 21:3-5, 9,10</a>).
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<br><br><b>up thyself</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> "Gather thyself," that is, retire or return.
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<p id="Jer47_7"><b>7.</b> Jeremiah, from addressing the sword in the second person, turns to his hearers and speaks of it in the third person.
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<br><br><b>Lord...given it a charge</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',14,17);">Eze 14:17</a>).
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<br><br><b>the sea-shore</b>—the strip of land between the mountains and Mediterranean, held by the Philistines: "their valley" (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer047.html#Jer47_5">Jer 47:5</a>).
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<br><br><b>there hath he appointed it</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Mic',6,9);">Mic 6:9</a>). There hath He ordered it to rage.
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