--- title: "Jeremiah 47 - Study King James Bible with treasury of scripture knowledge" description: "Read Jeremiah 47 with treasury of scripture knowledge commentary. 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters ri" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47" --- [ Read](/kjv/jeremiah/47)[ Commentary](/study/jeremiah/47)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/jeremiah/47) Audio 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.* 2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, 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.* 3 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; 4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, *and* to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.* 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off *with* the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? 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, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.* [Jeremiah 46](/study/jeremiah/46) [Jeremiah 48](/study/jeremiah/48) ## Commentary To verse 1 Cir, am 3387, bc 617 **against:** [Exodus 25:15-17](/kjv/exodus/25/15-17), [Amos 1:6-8](/kjv/amos/1/6-8), [Zephaniah 2:4-7](/kjv/zephaniah/2/4-7), [Zechariah 9:5-7](/kjv/zechariah/9/5-7) **Gaza:** Heb. Azzah, [Jeremiah 25:20](/kjv/jeremiah/25/20), [Genesis 10:19](/kjv/genesis/10/19), *marg. [1 Kings 4:24](/kjv/1-kings/4/24) **Reciprocal:** [Joshua 15:47](/kjv/joshua/15/47) - Gaza [Isaiah 14:30](/kjv/isaiah/14/30) - and I [Jeremiah 27:3](/kjv/jeremiah/27/3) - Edom [Jeremiah 36:2](/kjv/jeremiah/36/2) - against all [Jeremiah 47:5](/kjv/jeremiah/47/5) - Gaza [Ezekiel 25:15](/kjv/ezekiel/25/15) - Because [Ezekiel 36:7](/kjv/ezekiel/36/7) - the heathen [Amos 1:7](/kjv/amos/1/7) - a fire ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47","name":"Jeremiah 47 - Study King James Bible with treasury of scripture knowledge","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Jeremiah 47 with treasury of scripture knowledge commentary. 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters ri","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge","name":"treasury of scripture knowledge"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah","name":"Jeremiah"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/jeremiah/47","name":"47"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```