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Jeremiah

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The LORD’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza. See also: Jeremiah 25:20 Genesis 10:19 1 Kings 4:24The LORD says: “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, and will overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein. The men will cry, and all the inhabitants of the land will wail. See also: Jeremiah 1:14 Jeremiah 46:20 Jeremiah 8:16At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back for their children because their hands are so feeble, See also: Judges 5:22 Jeremiah 8:16 Nahum 2:4because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for the LORD will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. See also: Amos 9:7 Isaiah 20:6 Deuteronomy 2:23Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing. You remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself? See also: Jeremiah 48:37 Jeremiah 25:20 Jeremiah 41:5“‘You sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’ See also: Ezekiel 21:3-5 Jeremiah 12:12 John 18:11“How can you be quiet, since the LORD has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there he has appointed it.” See also: Micah 6:9 Ezekiel 14:17 Isaiah 10:6

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)5 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Jeremiah 47:1

Ver. 1. Gaza, going or returning from Charcamis. Apries also attacked Tyre, and would of course invade the Philistines. They had assisted the Tyrians against Nabuchodonosor, who therefore made incursions into their territory, and into that of Ammon, &c. while the main part of his army besieged Tyre for thirteen years. C.

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Jeremiah 47:3

Ver. 3. Marching. Lit. "pomp," (H.) or warlike apparatus. H. --- Prot. "stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at," &c. H. --- Children. Fear makes one forget the nearest relations, while each one provides for himself. C. ix. 4. Mic.

vii. 5. Mat. x. 35.

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Jeremiah 47:4

Ver. 4. Tyre. See C. xlvii. 4. Ezec. xxvi. &c. --- Sidon. It had rejoiced at the downfall of its rival, (Is. xxiii. 4.) and of the Jews. Joel iii. 4. Ezec. xxviii. 24.

Artax Ochus punished it severely; (C.) and its own king, Tenner, betrayed his subjects, who were slain by the Persians, or burnt themselves in the conflagration of the city. Diodor. Olym. 177. a. 2. --- Helpers; Philistines, who came originally from the isle of Caphtor, or Crete. --- Cappadocia was not an island, or near the sea, (C.) but at a distance from the Jews. Sanct.

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Jeremiah 47:5

Ver. 5. Baldness, the sign of mourning, (C.) or captivity. H. --- Peace. Heb.

"shall be destroyed." Sept. "cast away." She has afforded no assistance to Gaza. H. --- Valley, along the Mediterranean. C. --- Lit. "And ye remnants of their valley, how?" &c. --- Cut, in despair or grief. C. xli. 5. Sept. "Remnants of the Enakeim, (giants) how long wilt thou make incisions?"

H. --- The race of Enack dwelt in those parts; though ankim seems to have been mistaken for ankom. C.

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Jeremiah 47:6

Ver. 6. Sword. He is moved with pity to see so much carnage, but reflects that such is the will of God. Nabuchodonosor was his sword or scourge. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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