Jeremiah 47:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Jeremiah 47:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 47. Philistia. Instead of Jeremiah 47:1 , LXX has simply On the Philistines, which is probably original. The waters rising from the north ( Jeremiah 47:2 ) would suggest Babylon, not Egyp...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

sword of the LORD. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 32:41 ).
Jeremiah 47:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here Jeremiah turns to address the sword of God; and it is a happy apostrophe. It is very striking and forcible, when the Prophet at one time addresses the land of the Philistines, and at anoth...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1085 THE MEANS OF TERMINATING WAR Jeremiah 47:6-7 . 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. How can it b...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. O thou sword of the Lord - This is a most grand prosopopoeia - a dialogue betw...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

O thou sword of the Lord— It is with great elegance that life is attributed to inanimate things. This dialogue between the sword of the Lord and the prophet, is a very bold, and at the same time a...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself int...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Against Philistia The Chaldean armed men with horses and chariots shall carry terror and desolation into Philistia and its cities.
Jeremiah 47:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

O thou sword of the Lord... — This is the question and entreaty of the Philistines, “When will there be an end of war?” And the prophet has but one answer: the sword must do its work till it has do...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVIII THE PHILISTINES Jeremiah 47:1-7 "O sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still."- Jeremiah 47:6 ACCORDING to...
Jeremiah 47:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this brief chapter we find the word concerning the Philistines. It consists of foretelling a scourge coming against them from the north which would utterly break their power. In figurative languag...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I be g the Reader to remark with me, the beauty, as well as the power of this scripture. Calling to the sword to be quiet, is a fine image, to express the feelings of the Prophet, in the view of slau...
Jeremiah 47:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O thou sword of the Lord ,.... For though it was the sword of the Chaldeans, yet being appointed and sent by the Lord, and having a commission from him, and being ordered and directed in his provide...
Jeremiah 47:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 6. O thou sword of the Lord. ] So called because whencesoever it comet...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O thou sword of the Lord By the sword of the Lord , war is here intended, with which, as a great instrument of calamity and destruction, God punishes the crimes of his enemies, and pleads the caus...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Judgment of the Philistines. B. C. 588. 1 The word of the L ORD that came to Jeremi...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Jeremiah 47:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

C). Prophecy Concerning Philistia And Its Great Cities Including Within It A Word Against Tyre and Sidon ( Jeremiah 47:1-7 ). To the west of Judah was Philistia, with its great semi-independent ci...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. —“Before that Pharaoh smote Gaza” ( Jeremiah 47:1 ); but which Pharaoh? Pharaoh- Necho , on his return from defeating Josiah at Megiddo...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 47:1 . Before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. This is thought to be Pharaoh- necho; but critics are not agreed as to the time of the war, whether it was after the defeat of Josiah, when he was r...
Jeremiah 47:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. War overruled for God’s glory Notwithstanding all the boasted improvements of modem times, in knowledge and refinement, wars have not been...
Jeremiah 47:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PROPHECY ON THE PHILISTINES . EXPOSITION It is clear from the contents of the prophecy (and the inference is thoroughly confirmed by its position) that it was written after the battle of...
Jeremiah 47:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prophecy against the Philistines.
Jeremiah 47:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 21:27 ; 2 Samuel 2:26 ; Deuteronomy 32:41 ; Deuteronomy 32:42 ; Ezekiel 14:17 ; Ezekiel 21:30 ; Ezekiel 21:3-5 ; Isaiah 10:15 ; Isaiah 10:5 ; Jeremiah 12:12 ; Jeremiah 12:4 ;...
Jeremiah 47:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

O thou sword — Perhaps they are the words of the prophet, lamenting the havock which he made among the Philistines by the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 47:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 47:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Jeremiah 47:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 47:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 47:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 47:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 47:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 47:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 47:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 47:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 47:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 47:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 47:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 47:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 47:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes