The Strand Study Bible

JEREMIAH 47:1

JEREMIAH 48:5

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is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? P 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, 1 seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it. P Jeremiah 48 The promise of Moab’s fall to Babylon (Fulfilled - 582 BC) (Note - This portion of Jeremiah’s prophecy took place in the 4th year of King Jehoiakim’s reign) Date Written - 605 BC/AM 3395 1 5 Against Moab thus saith the LORD OF HOSTS , the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: 6 Misgab is confounded and dismayed. P 2 5 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. P 3 5 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim,spoilingandgreatdestruction. P 4 5 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. P 5 5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. P

1. Fulfilled - 603 BC

Jeremiah 47 The promise of Philistia’s partial

(Fall of Philistia) Note - Philistia fell partially to the Babylonians in 603 BC. Seventeen years later in 586 BC Nebuchadnezzar returned to the area and destroyed her 2. that is, “a sea of humanity ( waters ) out of Babylon ( the north )” 3. Fulfilled - From 585-572 BC (Fall of Phoenicia) 4. Gen 10:14 Note - Caphtor is another name for the country of the Philistines. 5. Fulfilled - 582 BC (Fall of Moab) 6. Note - Misgab is possibly Kir, the capital of Moab. completely - Zeph 2:4-7 & Ezk 25:15-17.

fall to Babylon (Fulfilled - 603 BC)

(Note - This portion of Jeremiah’s prophecy took place in the 4th year of King Jehoiakim’s reign) Date Written - 605 BC/AM 3395

1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet 1 against the Philis- tines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. P 2 Thus saith the LORD; 1 Behold, 2 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. P 3 1 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; P The promise of Tyre and Zidon’s fall to Babylon (Fulfilled - From 585 - 572 BC) 4 1 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from 3 Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of 4 Caphtor. PP 5 1 Baldness is come uponGaza; Ashkelon

47:1 The date of this prophecy places it before Pharaoh smote Gaza, sometime between 605 – 598 BC (II Ki 24:6-7). Interestingly enough, compared to what Babylon was about to do to the Philistines cities (vs 2-7) Egypt’s invasion was only the beginning of sorrows. 47:2 The advancing Babylonian army would be so big and so powerful that their approach to the Philistines cities would caused the men within those cities to sit down and cry like children. 47:3 Even fathers within these cities shall be so scared that in their fright ( feebleness of hands ) they will flee, leaving their children unprotected. 47:4 Because Tyre and Sidon will have already been besieged, they will not be a help to the Philistines. 47:5 This expression ( how long wilt thou cut thyself ) was used to describe the length of the extreme sorrow and anguish that the people of Philistia would endure. 47:6 Even Jeremiah was taken back by the devastation and duration of war and its casualties, and begged the Lord to “sheath” His sword ( put up thyself into thy scabbard ) lest it destroy everything. However, the sword, once drawn, rarely finds its way into the scabbard quickly. 47:7 Jeremiah appears to answer his own complaint… the sword of the Lord cannot be sheathed (quieted) until the Lord hath given it a charge (fulfilled His charge against those who deserved it). 48:1 The Moabites were descendants of Lot, Abraham’s nephew, through incest with his eldest daughter (Gen 19:30-38). Despite their awkward beginning, the Moabites were promised by God to retain the lands they occupied (Deut 2:8-9 and II Chro 20:10). The same was true for the Edomites (Deut 2:4-5 and II Chro 20:10), which were descendants of Abraham’s grandson (Esau), and the Ammonites (Deut 2:18-19 and II Chro 20:10), which were descendants of Lot through incest with his youngest daughter (Gen 19:30-38). NOTE – Ruth, David’s great-grandmother, was a Moabitess, thus the blood of Moab ran through the veins of Jesus. 48:2,4 The Moabites kingdom vanished as a nation ( and let us cut it off from being a nation; Moab is destroyed ) after Babylon destroyed it in 582 BC. Centuries later the area was occupied by the famed Nabateans, under whom the land flourished once again. The present-day Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan on the east bank of the Jordan River occupies the same land that the country of Moab and the people of Moab once occupied.